'A true heritage crime': Nearly 50,000 sign petition against loan of Bayeux Tapestry to London

For nearly a thousand years, the Bayeux Tapestry hasn’t budged from France.

Now, a plan to send the fragile embroidery across the Channel to London's British Museum has ignited a storm of protest - with almost 50,000 people signing a petition that warns that one wrong move could destroy one of Europe’s greatest treasures.