Lucy Beaumont wants to build a statue to Caroline Aherne
Caroline Aherne is to be immortalised with a statue if Lucy Beaumont gets her way.
The stand-up has announced a campaign to commemorate The Royle Family creator in the Wythenshawe district of Manchester where she grew up.
Outlining her plans on X, Beaumont wrote that "the next project I want to do in the new year is raise money (I'll put my own in don't worry!) for a statue in Manchester for Caroline Aherne.
"It upsets me massively that no-one has done it yet so I thought maybe I should," she added. And she explained that she would outline more about the project in the new year.
Appealing to her more than 100,000 X followers for help with the campaign, the comic accepted that it would be a "long process" of getting council permission and commissioning an artist to come up with a mock-up design.
Aherne was born in Ealing, West London, but moved to Wythenshawe at the age of two. She began her career as a stand-up on the Manchester circuit in the 1980s and early 1990s before finding fame as Mrs Merton.
She died at her home in Timperley, Cheshire in 2016, at the age of 52, following a battle with cancer.