Britain gives Baroness Thatcher send-off she deserved. Hundreds of thousands line streets to applaud her coffin before magnificent service at St Paul's that united friends and former political foes

Lady Thatcher today received a funeral fit for Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister. The Rt Rev Richard Chartres pointedly claimed that the Tolpuddle Martyrs, widely seen as the founders of the trade union movement, were lay preachers from Lady Thatcher's own Methodist religion not 'proto-Marxists'. He also said Lady Thatcher was just an ordinary woman and that she realised one could not succeed without 'society'. Prime Minister David Cameron praised his predecessor for 'breaking the mould' and taking decisions that 'led to less division'. Earlier, a tri-service bearer party carried the coffin up the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, above, where 2,300 mourners from 170 countries - including the Queen - were waiting, marking the end of the funeral procession on a gun carriage through the streets of London, which was watched by an estimated 250,000 people. The bearers were all drawn from ships, squadrons and regiments associated with the Falklands. Lady Thatcher's coffin was warmly applauded as it made its sombre