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23 hours ago · UK to finish with coal power after 142 years. The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel. The country's last coal power ...
23 hours ago · The Thatcher governments privatised the loss-making nationalised industries, ... Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images. 01:15 PM BST German inflation falls to three-year low.
23 hours ago · The Scorpions prosecuted Winnie Mandela for fraud and arrested Mark Thatcher, son of the late UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, over his suspected involvement in a coup attempt in Equatorial ...
3 days ago · Thatcherism, the political and economic ideas and policies advanced by Margaret Thatcher, Conservative prime minister (1979–90) of the United Kingdom, particularly those involving the privatization of nationalized industries, a limited role for government, free markets, low taxes, individuality,
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12 hours ago · Coal has fueled civil strife as well as powering the country. Tens of thousands of miners walked out in 1984 over plans by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government to close more than 20 coal pits. The strike lasted a year, divided communities and saw widespread violence as police clashed with pickets.
3 days ago · Premiership of Margaret Thatcher. Appearance. This article is about Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. For the people in her ministries, see First Thatcher ministry, Second Thatcher ministry, and Third Thatcher ministry.
23 hours ago · I am thinking of people such as Robert Armstrong, who served as cabinet secretary for the majority of Margaret Thatcher’s time in office, Robin Butler (1988–98) and Gus O’Donnell (2005–11).
