Association wants greater protection for WW2 wreck

Survivors and victims' families say more should be done to recognise those who died in one of Britain's biggest World War II disasters.
A few miles off the coast of France lays the wreck of HMT Lancastria, sunk 67 years ago by German bombers.
It is a reminder of the afternoon of 17 June 1940, described as Britain's worst maritime disaster in history.
On that day an estimated 4,000 troops and refugees died when the 16,243-ton liner quickly went down. The liner was sunk off the Brittany port of Saint-Nazaire by the German bombers.
In May 2006, the French government placed a 200m exclusion zone around the wreck to discourage diving.
Next week a petition will be handed over which currently has about 3,500 signatories, to ask the government to designate the wreck a war grave under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) says it does not have legal powers to designate the Lancastria a maritime war grave because of the location of the wreck, inside French territorial waters.
The petition was set up by the Lancastria Association of Scotland, which campaigns to bring greater awareness of the disaster. It wants greater protection for the Lancastria after reports of divers visiting the wreck.