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[Urgent] Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dead at 87: spokesman
April 8, 2013
LONDON (AFP) - Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" who shaped a generation of British politics, died following a stroke on Monday at the age of 87, her spokesman said."It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning," Lord Tim Bell said, referring to Thatcher's children. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was saddened to hear of her death, Buckingham Palace said. "The Queen