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WHYS 60: Your reaction to the death of former British PM Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said. Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said. Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning". Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first woman to hold the post.

(Image: A plaque above a health shop that now occupies the building where former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham in northern England. Credit: LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP/Getty Images)

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