ITV Yorkshire/Emmerdale: Show a few respect to the Clutha Disaster victims.

The storyline has sparked some upset among the families of the Clutha Disaster victims, and a petition has been set up online, appealing to producer Kate Oates not to air the episodes on ITV this week.

10 people died in November 2013 after a police helicopter crashed on top of a pub in the centre of Glasgow, and some of the relatives of those killed have launched the Change.org petition to request that ‘Emmerdale’s broadcaster ITV cancel the storyline, due to go out on Tuesday night (August 4th) in an hour-long special episode.

He told the Sun: ‘I can’t understand why they thought it would be a good idea considering what happened 20 months ago.

The dramatic story, which will unfold on the soap every night this week, will see a helicopter crash through the roof of the village hall during Pete Barton’s wedding to Debbie Dingle.

The crash is predicted to kill off at the least one main forged member and depart many injured.

She said: “I think editorially, whenever you’re looking at any potential disaster scenario you have to consider it very carefully”.

Morag Lennox, from Glasgow, who also signed the petition, said: ‘We the people of Glasgow are still coming to terms with the loss at the Clutha.’. It’s set up over a scrapyard, over a marital dispute, where a gas canister explodes and it’s a chain of events.

Meanwhile, at the wedding the helicopter comes crashing through the roof of the village hall jeopardising the lives of everyone inside.

‘So we kept it very deliberately far apart.

“The accident occurs as a outcome of Chrissie setting fire to her cheating husband’s vehicle which spreads to the scrapyard. It’s not something we were concerned about because we made the decision very carefully”.

Viewers will have to tune in to the rest of the week’s episodes to find out the fall out from the disaster.