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My home town doesn’t need a fawning monument to Margaret Thatcher

Grantham can do much better than this – an Iron Lady statue facing off with a bronze poll tax protester would be more fitting

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s very divisive’: Margaret Thatcher’s statue splits birthplace of Grantham

Residents of former PM’s hometown continue to have mixed feelings about sculpture after egging

The Guardian - UK

Man sells eggs by Margaret Thatcher statue after landmark gets vandalised

The 20ft statue of the UK's first female Prime Minister was egged just two hours after it was installed on May 15

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Mother-in-law says relative who threw eggs at Baroness Thatcher statue 'childish'

Statue costing £300,000 was sited in former prime minister's home town of Grantham over fears it could become focus of "far-left" if placed in Parliamentary Square, Westminster

Daily Mirror

Moment protester eggs Margaret Thatcher statue after it's unveiled in Grantham

Passing motorists loudly booed the monument, with one shouting “tear it down”

Manchester Evening News

Margaret Thatcher statue egged by protestors within hours of being installed in home town

The statue was lowered into place in Grantham, Lincolnshire, amid previous threats of “egg throwing” and was booed by passing motorists.

Wales Online

Protestor eggs statue of Margaret Thatcher just hours after installation

The brand new £300,000 statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher hadn't long been up when it was struck by eggs

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Margaret Thatcher statue egged by protesters in her home town

It was only unveiled hours earlier

Liverpool Echo

New Margaret Thatcher status egged and 'loudly booed' just hours after being erected

Passing motorists loudly booed the monument, with one shouting 'tear it down'

Irish Mirror

Margaret Thatcher statue egged within hours of it being installed

The memorial of the former prime minister in her home town of Grantham was unveiled without ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Thatcher statue egged within hours of going up in home town of Grantham

Protester arrived in the morning with a carton of eggs as memorial to former PM installed

The Independent UK

Margaret Thatcher statue egged within hours of being installed in home town

The statue was lowered into place on Sunday morning amid previous threats of ‘egg throwing’.

The Independent UK

Margaret Thatcher statue egged by protester within two hours of being installed

A STATUE of Margaret Thatcher has been pelted with eggs less than two hours after it was installed as a protester made good on promises to target…

The National (Scotland)

Margaret Thatcher statue lowered in her home town - despite 'egg throwing' threats

The £300,000 statue will be unveiled in Grantham

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Daily Record

Margaret Thatcher statue erected despite warnings it will be pelted with eggs

The £300,000 statue of the divisive former prime minister is being perched on a 10ft-high plinth to deter vandals.

Daily Mirror

Margaret Thatcher statue pelted with eggs just two hours after it's installed

Just one of the eggs made contact with the statue of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which was erected in her home town of Grantham today

The Independent UK

Thatcher statue lowered into place despite ‘egg-throwing’ threats

Planning permission for the £300,000 memorial was approved in February 2019.

Nottingham Post

New £125m shopping centre an hour from Nottingham could attract Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger

It could potentially be home to more than 100 stores

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The Guardian - UK

Downton Abbey: A New Era review – cheerfully risible second helping of snobby melodrama

The second – and hopefully last – film spun off from Julian Fellowes’s successful TV series is as hammy, silly, and undeniably entertaining as ever

Wales Online

Rising Damp and Home to Roost creator Eric Chappell dies aged 88

Eric Chappell was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in September 1933

Birmingham Post

Order processing specialist that started in a garage 30 years ago sees 10% rise in sales to £6m

Hallmark Consumer Services has taken on a second site in Grantham, set to open this summer

Zenger

Breathtaking Aerial Images Reveal 11 Nests Perched 100 Feet In Trees At 17th Century Stately Home

Pictures captured the scenes at the heronry at the National Trust run Belton House in the parish of Grantham in the United Kingdom

The Guardian - UK

Where tourists seldom tread, part 2: five great UK towns left out of the guidebooks

From Cumbernauld to Guildford, we celebrate more unheralded but revelatory areas

Daily Mirror

Notes written by teen girls looking for boyfriends 56 years ago found in river

The two notes were placed in the bottle and tossed into the river in Grantham in 1966. Jennifer Coleman and Janet Blankley said they were looking for teenage boys and listed their contact details

ABC News

Relocating flood-prone homes is hard, but could it be a better way to spend disaster relief funds?

As NSW and Queensland count the cost of another deadly flooding disaster, thousands of residents are facing an agonising decision — to rebuild or relocate? And many are wondering whether the billions spent on clean-up might be better off helping them move to safer ground.

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