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I appreciate we have different views, particularly as I'm old enough to have been around back in her day (dunno - maybe you are too, but still, different views). I remember there was some jubilation when she left office, and even more when the Tories finally left. Obviously that didn't work out as we would have liked, and clearly we are talking about the death of an old lady here, and there is a family who have lost a mother and so on. But don't take the "mourning" that will take place in the News International owned newspapers and the rest of the media as being an indication that there are not people out there who didn't like her very much.
Anyhoo, in the end I would still hold out that using that picture on an obit does indicate a researcher/editor/whatever that didn't get the "don't use the photo of Jimmy Saville with the person you are trying to eulogise" memo.
The NSPCC was not in my original thinking - just an aside at the bottom. They got a cheque though, sort of win for them.