Books were also placed in British embassies and high commissions from Budapest to Quito, Cape Town to Singapore and Washington DC.

In the short time since Lady Thatcher’s death, critics, enemies and former opponents have poured out a relentless stream of vitriol about her. Here is a selection which reflects poorly on the authors.

Perhaps the greatest canard about the Thatcher years is that she was merely the champion of the wealthy. But this is nonsense. She did not win three elections by appealing just to millionaires, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK.

Baroness Thatcher, 87, suffered a stroke at 11.28am on Monday while reading a book in a suite at the five-star Ritz Hotel in central London, where she had been staying since after Christmas.

Parents can buy a maximum of two 900g tins of Aptamil or Cow & Gate milk each time they shop at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons supermarkets.

The United Nations ranked Britain in the bottom half of a league table of the best places to be a child – below the likes of Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Portugal.

Paris Brown, 17, said she was 'truly sorry for any offence' as she resigned from her £15,000-a-year job after posting messages boasting about her sex life, drinking binges and drugs.

The average mortgage fee has increased by £112 in the last four months alone, as they hit the highest level since records began 25 years ago.

The European Court of Human Rights found that rapist Mustafa Abdi's right to liberty was breached when he was detained as he awaited deportation to Somalia.

Fracking, which involves blasting underground rock deposits with water and chemicals to release trapped pockets of gas, has been blamed for triggering earthquakes.

Asda had already withdrawn tens of thousands of its own brand corned beef last month after it was found to contain up to 50 per cent horsemeat.

A large lorry was reversed into the driveway of the embassy in Ealing, West London, and boxes were seen being loaded into a shipping container.

In the first study of its kind, new fathers told scientists at the University of California-Santa Barbara that their self-image improved after the birth of their child.

The Work and Pensions Secretary accused Labour and the BBC of fuelling a ‘stunt’ after he suggested in a radio interview that if necessary, he could get by on the amount a benefit claimant said he had to subsist on.

Around 8 per cent of parents think that the coalition has had a positive impact on the education system since it took power, while almost half said the impact has been negative.

With the row raging over benefit cuts back home, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg decided to escape it all and head to his family's ski chalet in the resort of Davos in Switzerland.

John Yallop, 65, of Blackburn, Lancashire, a married father of four, had been offering bereavement counselling to the 16-year-old girl just months after she lost her entire family.

Police were called to a home in Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire, at 11.40am where they found the bodies. The murder suspect was airlifted to the Royal Preston Hospital. (file photo)

Wayne Crompton, 36, was on a six-month ban when he knocked over two officers who stopped him for driving on the wrong side of the road in Harpurhey, Manchester.

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London A-Level student Mustafa Al-Bassam, whose identity was protected until now because of his age, has admitted computer crimes relating to notorious hacker collective Lulzsec.

The incident, which happened just before 7:40pm last night near Great Coates station in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, killed the car's driver and passenger but did not injure any commuters on the train.

Evelyn Clarke (pictured), 28, from Irvine, Ayrshire, died from multiple injuries after she fell from a tower block window in Dubai late on Sunday.

Prince Philip, 91, today announced he was retiring as president of Fields in Trust after 64 years in favour of William, who is expected to announce he is leaving the RAF later this month.

Harry Harper (pictured) died after he was bitten by the terrier in his table-top carry cot when grandmother Teresa Bell’s back was turned, an inquest at Telford Coroner's Court heard.

Megan Adie, pictured, was tricked into having sex with Christine Wilson when she was just 15 after Wilson, who was sentenced to probation today at Edinburgh's High Court, pretended to be a teenager boy.

Daniel Day, 34, was racing a Mini Cooper belonging to his partner Alice Hicks, 27, at up to 80mph when he lost control on a blind bend near Rooksbridge, Somerset.

Paul Lapping, 53, of Swansea, South Wales, was handed a 20-month suspended prison sentence after falsely claiming state benefits as he jetted more than 4,000 miles to romance a Canadian woman.

The 21-year-old former Newcastle United player admitted common assault on Shakira Bicar outside the city's Gate entertainment complex in the city last month.

Archaeologists have found coins, pottery, shoes, lucky charms and an amber Gladiator amulet which date back almost 2,000 years in the heart of London's financial district.

The hotel in Carlsbad, California has 3,422 models, including four smoke and bubble-breathing dragons, made out of more than three million bricks.

A series of hilarious passive-aggressive notes left for roommates show one way to get the message across. Be it leaving the butter out or not cleaning up after yourself, these notes show exactly the sort of behaviour that won't exactly endear you to your housemates.

The 44ft bicycle has been created by Indonesian villagers out of rusting iron pipe. It seats just one person and was hand crafted in Blawe village, Kediri, in East Java.

Some historians may tell you that the Thatcher process is a natural story of a country in such trouble that it turned to an unlikely figure who got it back on track. Very tidy, but it didn’t happen like that at all, writes ANDREW ALEXANDER.