Statue of fossil hunter Mary Anning to be erected in Lyme Regis.
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A statue of the nineteenth century fossil hunter Mary Anning is to be erected in her home town, Lyme Regis, in Dorset on the south coast of England. The announcement comes after a campaign by schoolgirl Evie Swire, 13, and her mother, Anya Pearson, confirmed they had raised £70 000 of the £100 000 estimated to be needed for the commissioning and instillation of the statue. The campaign, Mary Anning Rocks, has attracted a range of prominent supporters, including novelist Tracy Chevalier, naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts, palaeontologist and writer Dean Lomax, Earth scientist and broadcaster Anjana Khatwa, and geologist and author Hugh Torrens, and is present on both Facebook and Twitter.
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