CAMPAIGNERS for the erection of a statue of Sylvia Pankhurst in Clerkenwell Green have assured supporters that they are still “very much on the case” as their battle enters its eighth year.

Volunteers have been fundraising for the project for two decades, wanting to give the suffragette a proper memorial. She is absent from the existing one in Westminster, which only represents her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel.

But the decision to install the statue in Clerkenwell Green was met with backlash from the Clerkenwell Preservation Society which argued that the statue was “unwanted” as Ms Pankhurst had “nothing to do with Clerkenwell”.

The campaign group is currently waiting to hear whether the planning application has been approved by the council. And they are stepping up fundraising to “cover the cost of patination of the statue, transportation and erecting a suitable plinth”.