Baroness Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her spokesman Lord Bell has announced.
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.
"A further statement will be made later."
Baroness
Thatcher, Britain's first and only woman prime minister, had become
increasingly frail and was suffering ill health in recent years.
She
was admitted to hospital shortly before Christmas where she underwent
an operation to remove a growth from her bladder but was allowed to
return home before new year.
Baroness
Thatcher, who was prime minister between 1979 and 1990, has been
credited with transforming a nation in one decade, putting Britain back
among the leading industrial nations of the world.
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