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Join Date: Jul 2010
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Bishop of Grantham : Cost of Thatcher's funeral a 'mistake'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-22125280
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The Bishop of Grantham has spoken out about the scale and cost of Margaret Thatcher's funeral.
The Rt Rev Tim Ellis, from Baroness Thatcher's birthplace in Lincolnshire, has called the £10m event a "mistake".
He warned that while there is ill feeling about the former prime minister, some people may use the event for their own political agenda.
He said the ceremonial funeral was "asking for trouble" and should be "more low-key and personal".
The funeral, with military honours, will take place on Wednesday at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
It will be the first time the Queen has attended the funeral of a British prime minister since Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965.
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Good for Bishop ..... 
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