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Details of Margaret Thatcher's Funeral released

  Further details of Margaret Thatcher's funeral have been released. A single, half-muffled ...
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Details of Margaret Thatcher's Funeral released

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Further details of Margaret Thatcher's funeral have been released.

A single, half-muffled bell will toll as the funeral cortege draws up to St Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday.

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Fourteen Chelsea Pensioners will line the steps.

The military procession leading to the service will feature more than 700 serving Armed Forces personnel.

It will pass Trafalgar Square and Number 10 Downing Street.

It's understood the former British prime minister requested the hymn "I vow to thee my country" at her service and for the prime minister of the day - of whatever political affiliation - to do a reading from the Gospels.

Speaking in London, Carol Thatcher paid tribute to her late mother.

Meanwhile, 9 people have been arrested during demonstrations in central London to mark the death of Margaret Thatcher.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in the rain at Trafalgar Square.

Some drank cider and Champagne - as they chanted slogans about the former British prime minister who died on Monday, at the age of 87.


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