Lara Croft - the highly intelligent, athletic British archaeologist and triangular-busted adventurer who explores ancient tombs and ruins for lost artefacts - turns 30 next year. Yes, it is three decades since the star of the long-running Tomb Raider video game series, and later Hollywood icon, was "born" here in Derby.

For many years, after she shot to fame, people in the city were very familiar with her, and were proud of her origins. Thousands of people voted to have a part of the inner ring road named after her and it became Lara Croft Way, with many votes coming from across the world, so famous had she become.

And although it had been suggested, everyone stopped short of another statue in Derby - although she would probably have a more rightful place to be part of its history than a

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