‘Perfect spot’: statue of fossil hunter Mary Anning nears unveiling

Campaigners led by schoolgirl get permission to site sculpture of palaeontologist on Dorset coast after four-year battle

A statue to the 19th-century fossil hunter and palaeontologist Mary Anning, who was once lost to history", is finally set to be unveiled in 2022 in her home town of Lyme Regis after a schoolgirl's four-year campaign.

Campaigners, who have overcome bureaucratic red tape and raised more than 100,000 in crowdfunding, have been granted planning permission to site the bronze in the perfect spot", overlooking Black Ven cliffs on the Jurassic coast in Dorset, where she made her pioneering finds.