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Thatcher funeral: U turn 23 pages but Daily Mail hasn't got a photo of Maggie

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Hanging offence … the Daily Mail's only image of Lady Thatcher in its first edition.

Over a leisurely banana Monkey ploughed through all the newspaper pages devoted to Baroness Thatcher's funeral and noted that the Daily Mail seems to have had the most coverage with an ink-blowing 23 pages. But wait, what's this? None of those pages in the first edition feature a picture of Thatcher herself – bar a crude page 11 image on a hanging effigy in Yorkshire. By the second edition, a subeditor – presumably anxious to assuage the wrath of editor Paul Dacre who attended the funeral – had slapped in a small headshot of Maggie on page 3. Dacre would surely have been fuming at missing such a prime opportunity to publish photos of the Mail's heroine. It can only mean one thing. Another full-colour, pull-out tribute has to be on the cards.

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