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UK road to be named in honour of Tomb Raider
26.02.2010
You know computer games have gone mainstream when the public demand to have a road named after one: a UK£36-million ring road in Derby in the UK will soon be named Lara Croft Way in honour of the infamous Tomb Raider heroine.
Following a public vote on the naming of this new road, a staggering 89pc of the 28,000 votes were in favour of Lara Croft with the local army regiment coming a distant second.
But do not worry, the locals have not gone completely barmy or computer-games obsessed: Lara Croft is in fact a local, as she was created in the mid-1990s by the now-defunct Core Designs, a games studio located in Derby.
The fictional treasure-hunting ass-kicking archeologist also beat a local footballer, astronomer and engineer, showing that sometimes geeks really do have the last word.
By Marie Boran
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