Piper Alpha disaster memorial gardens 拢1m campaign launched

Image caption, The Piper Alpha Memorial honours the 167 victims of the disaster

A campaign to raise 拢1m to help maintain the Piper Alpha disaster memorial gardens in Aberdeen has been launched.

The 1988 North Sea oil platform tragedy saw 167 men die, the world's worst such incident.

A statue and the memorial gardens are a major feature at Aberdeen's Hazlehead Park.

Service solutions company Sodexo said the <link> <caption>Pound for Piper</caption> <url href="http://poundforpiper.org/" platform="highweb"/> </link> aim was to raise 拢1m by 2013.