Margaret Thatcher's hometown is planning a major festival to mark the centenary of the Iron Lady's birth.
'The Festival of Thatcher' is being backed by council leaders in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in celebration of the UK's first female prime minister.
It would take place in the week of October 13, 100 years after Margaret Roberts , as she was then, was born in the market town.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, South Kesteven District Council leader Ashley Baxter told a meeting of its finance and economic overview and scrutiny committee meeting this week: 'My aim is that, with the events happening during the week marking 100 years since the birth of Margaret Thatcher, anybody coming into Grantham - regardless of whether they are the son of a blacksmith or the son of an industry baron - should realise that Grantham was the home of Margaret Thatcher.
'And they and should go away thinking, ''they told the story fairly, and that was a fair representation of what Margaret Thatcher's impact on the UK and the world was''.'
