With spring tides continuing this week, coastguards have warned people to be aware of the dangers. Initial reports suggested 12 people were cut off below the boggy cliffs at Black Ven between Charmouth and Lyme Regis at the weekend. Black Ven is a popular fossil hunting spot known for its mudslides and rockfalls and where people are often caught out by the tide. A Lyme Regis Coastguard Rescue Team spokesman said: We were tasked alongside Lyme Regis Lifeboat to a report of 12 people cut off by the tide between Lyme and Charmouth. On arrival at the end of the sea wall to the east of Lyme Regis, it was established that seven people were soon to be cut off at various points below Black Ven. Two were immediately helped to safety at Lyme Regis.
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And the campaign to immortalise renowned Lyme Regis paleontologist Mary Anning is close to achieving its goal. The campaign group behind the project – which was inspired by a young girl s dream – has released images of early designs for the statue by its chosen sculptor, Denise Dutton. The sketches depict Anning with her dog, Tray, striding out towards the beach. Local girl Evie Swire started the campaign, with the help of her mother, Anya Pearson, when she was just 11. Evie is now 13 and a fundraising campaign is £20,000 away from the group being able to commission an artist. The idea began when, after a day at the beach, Evie asked her mother, ‘Why isn’t there a statue to Mary? - the Mary Anning Rocks campaign was born shortly after.
THREE people - including a woman stuck up to her thighs in mud - and a dog were plucked to safety from a cliff in a dramatic rescue operation. Emergency services worked together to rescue the group from a notorious boggy cliff in west Dorset as the tide was rising and the light was fading. The rescue, which went on for more than three hours, was centred on the cliffs at Black Ven between Charmouth and Lyme Regis, a popular fossil hunting spot known for its mudslides and rockfalls and where people are often caught out by the tide. It required multiple lifts by a helicopter, ferrying rescuers to the location of the casualties, then bringing people back to safety.