News Headlines - 08 April 2013

▽BBC News - Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died "peacefully" at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced.

▽Thatcher: ‘Iron lady’ who changed Britain - FT.com

She changed us all. We went from being a people who saw ourselves as eternally on the downward slide to a nation that was proud to be British again. On the world stage too, she made Britain count once more. She was a startling presence who brought a strong and controversial style to our diplomacy after years of Foreign Office blandness.

▽Margaret Thatcher- slideshow - NBCNews.com

A young Margaret Roberts (she was to become Margaret Thatcher upon her marriage in 1951) gets a hug from her father, Alfred Roberts, the owner of two grocery stores in Lincolnshire, a county in northeast England. Her father, a Methodist lay preacher, was active in local politics.

▽Thatcher to have same funeral status as Queen Mother and Princess Diana | The Times

Baroness Thatcher will be given a ceremonial funeral with military honours at St Paul’s Cathedral, the second highest honour after a state funeral. Downing Street said in an announcement that the arrangements for the funeral were “in line with the wishes of her family and with the Queen’s consent”.

▽Britain divided on Thatcher record, but 50% claim positive contribution – poll | guardian.co.uk

New ICM poll on day of Thatcher's death reveals strong opinions – 25% rate her record as 'very good', but 20% as 'very bad'