A bronze monument celebrating "formidable" 19th-century trailblazer Ada Lovelace is set to go up in the Midlands.

The statue will be positioned outside North Warwickshire And South Leicestershire College on Lower Bond Street in Hinckley following a fundraising campaign for the project.

Lovelace wrote the world's first computer programme while working on the analytical engine – a proposed mechanical computer devised by Charles Babbage, often referred to as the "father of computing".

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Her pioneering work was studied by Alan Turing, and America's first computer language was christened in her honour.

The daughter of poet Lord Byron, Lovelace was born in 1815 and lived her first six years at Kirkby Mallory

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