UK ex-PM Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

Kiyo: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died, following a stroke. She was 87.

Ex-spokesman Tim Bell said the woman known to friends and foes as "the Iron Lady" passed away on Monday morning.

"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.

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