Main content

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)

Available now

55 minutes

Last on

Mon 8 Apr 2013 17:05GMT

Broadcast

  • Mon 8 Apr 2013 17:05GMT

Featured in...

Global News Podcast

The day's top stories from 91热爆 News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends

Voices from Syria

Life in different parts of Syria - from the coastal city of Tartous to war-torn Aleppo

What's Life Like....?

Unique life experiences: from hearing for the first time to being a child bride

Podcast