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Baroness Thatcher funeral sets TV record
Tuesday 28 May 2013
The BBC's coverage of Baroness Thatcher's funeral was the third-most-requested live television programme ever on the iPlayer – with only the Olympics proving more popular.
Entrepreneurial spirit: Order of Service from Thatcher funeral goes on eBay
Friday 19 April 2013
She would perhaps have approved of the entrepreneurial initiative. Memorabilia from Baroness Thatcher's funeral, including a mint condition Order of Service, is already being auctioned to the highest bidder on eBay.
Margaret Thatcher funeral: Guests attend Guildhall reception
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Guests have started to arrive at the the City of London's Guildhall for a reception to honour Baroness Thatcher's memory.
Margaret Thatcher funeral: Political giants pay tribute to former prime minister at St Paul's Cathedral
Wednesday 17 April 2013
A “who's who” of the political world past and present packed into St Paul's Cathedral for the ceremonial funeral of one of Britain's most divisive figures.
Margaret Thatcher funeral: Mourners outside St Paul's Cathedral pay respects to 'inspiring' woman
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Devotees of the Iron Lady arrive early to watch funeral procession of leader who was 'simply the greatest'
Baroness Thatcher funeral timetable
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Here is the timetable for events surrounding the funeral of Baroness Thatcher today.
Margaret Thatcher's body to be moved to Westminster chapel for private family service ahead of funeral
Tuesday 16 April 2013
George Galloway and Dennis Skinner object to plans to delay start of Commons, which would cause the cancellation of Prime Minister's Questions
Margaret Thatcher pre-dawn funeral rehearsal 'went very well'
Monday 15 April 2013
A full military rehearsal for Baroness Thatcher's funeral has taken place in the early hours of this morning.
Margaret Thatcher's funeral: Maverick bishop's sermon will not be vetted by No 10
Sunday 14 April 2013
Officially, there will be no political eulogy at Baroness Thatcher's funeral. But when the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, clambers up to the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral to deliver the sermon on Wednesday, there will be some who will be holding their breath to see what he comes out with.
Prime Minister's Questions on same day as Thatcher's funeral 'a bit odd'
Thursday 11 April 2013
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has suggested it would be “a bit odd” to go ahead with Prime Minister's Questions on the day of Baroness Thatcher's funeral.
Mark Thatcher: The wayward son who finds himself torn between publicity and propriety
Tuesday 09 April 2013
He has a reputation for misadventure, but Mark Thatcher is determined to do the right thing by his late mother
Why Justin Webb gets the nod over Justin Welby
Monday 01 April 2013
According to a YouGov poll, on the question of trust, respondents ranked a priest below a family doctor, a teacher, a judge and even a BBC news journalist
British teens 'think Delia Smith, Jerry Hall and Camilla were Henry VIII's wives'
Thursday 21 March 2013
Survey lays bare shocking state of British youths' general knowledge
Film review: The Spirit of '45 - Mind the gap inKen Loach's impassioned plea for a return to post-war unity
Saturday 16 March 2013
An angry miner demands: "Who is it who tells the police to beat me – a working man?" Cut mischievously to a clip of Margaret Thatcher raising her hand as if to reply: "I do."
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