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           <title>UPDATED: County Council plan to reveal retirement sum of Chief Executive - but not until summer 2014</title>
           
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  CUMBRIA County Council has announced the early retirement of its Chief Executive Jill Stannard.
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           <title>Thousands line the streets for Margaret Thatcher's funeral</title>
           
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  Follow the updates live as Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral with military honours takes place in London this morning.
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           <title>Margaret Thatcher's coffin moved to Westminster in preparation for funeral</title>
           
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  Baroness Thatcher's coffin today arrived at Westminster, as the former Prime Minister paid her final visit to Parliament.
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           <title>Funeral hymn chosen by Baroness Thatcher 'inspired by Ullswater landscape'</title>
           
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  MOVING words penned by a Westmorland man will be sung during tomorrow's funeral service for Baroness Thatcher.
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           <title>Thatcher legacy debate ahead of funeral</title>
           
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  The body of Baroness Thatcher will make its final journey to Parliament today ahead of a potentially bitter debate in the Commons about her legacy.
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           <title>Weston plea for 'dignified' Thatcher funeral</title>
           
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  Falklands veteran Simon Weston has called for a "dignified" response to tomorrow's funeral for Baroness Thatcher.
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           <title>Big Ben to remain silent for Thatcher funeral</title>
           
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  The bells of Big Ben and the Great Clock at Westminster will remain silent on Wednesday during Baroness Thatcher's funeral as a mark of respect to the former prime minister, Commons Speaker John Bercow said today.
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           <title>Thatcher funeral rehearsal 'went very well'</title>
           
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  A full military rehearsal for the funeral of Baroness Thatcher, who was born and brought up in Grantham, has taken place in the early hours in London.
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  Baroness Thatcher's tempestuous relationship with the BBC looks set to continue after her death as the corporation found itself in the middle of a row over whether to play the Wizard Of Oz track which celebrates her demise.
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           <title>2,000 invited to Thatcher's funeral</title>
           
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  Details of more than 2,000 guests being invited to Baroness Thatcher's funeral have been issued - including all her former Cabinet ministers, ex-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
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           <title>700 forces personnel to attend Thatcher funeral</title>
           
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  More than 700 Armed Forces personnel will take part in the funeral of Baroness Thatcher, it was announced as her son said she would have been "humbled" by the presence of the Queen at St Paul's Cathedral.
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           <title>Parliament recall for Thatcher tributes questioned</title>
           
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  Politics will begin to get back to business as usual today after historic tributes were paid to Baroness Thatcher in Parliament.
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           <title>Cameron: 'Thatcher made Britain great again'</title>
           
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  Baroness Thatcher was a prime minister who made Britain great again, David Cameron has told MPs.
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           <title>Mark Thatcher overwhelmed by public support</title>
           
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  Baroness Thatcher would have been "honoured and humbled" by the presence of the Queen at her funeral, her son has said.
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           <title>Parliament pays tribute to Thatcher</title>
           
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  Parliamentarians are gathering to pay tribute to the late Baroness Thatcher ahead of the former Prime Minister's funeral next week.
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           <title>Former Westmorland MP pays tribute to Margaret Thatcher</title>
           
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  Former Westmorland and Lonsdale Conservative MP Tim Collins, who worked as a speechwriter to Margaret Thatcher, has paid tribute to the former Prime Minister.
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           <title>Ex-miners 'will not mourn Thatcher'</title>
           
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  The death of Baroness Thatcher will not be mourned by the ex-miners of Scotland, a coal industry veteran said today.
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           <title>Call to halt Thatcher celebrations</title>
           
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  Martin McGuinness has called on people not to celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher.
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           <title>Ceremonial pomp at Thatcher funeral</title>
           
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  Baroness Thatcher's funeral will be a sombre spectacle accompanied by all the pomp and ceremony befitting someone of her status.
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  The Queen will honour Baroness Thatcher, her longest serving prime minister, and attend the funeral of the woman who changed the face of modern British politics.
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