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. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.
Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became
the Conservative