Premiership of Gordon Brown into further talks over the issue. Finally, after a Commons Home Affairs Committee meeting between campaigners, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office on 19 May, Brown announced to the House of Commons on 20 May that the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith would make a statement on the issue the following day. Smith subsequently announced that all Gurkha veterans who had served four years or more in the British Army before 1997 would be allowed to settle in Britain. In the days following the release and high-profile return to Libya of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in August 2009, speculation
Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton with the Art Association of Montreal, and in 1941 she exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was a member of a number of art associations including the Manitoba Society of Artists, the Federation of Canadian Artists, the Winnipeg Sketch Club, the Canadian Arts Council, and the Arts Council of Manitoba. Newton died in 1967 in Toronto, Ontario. Newton was included in the 2013 exhibition "Herstory: Art by Women in The University of Winnipeg Collection" at Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg. Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton (1890–1967) was a Canadian painter known for