Family members of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, his mother and stepfather Lyn and Ian Rigby, Rebecca Rigby and Susan Metcalfe (mother-in-law) mourn as his stepfather reads out a family statement to the media during a press conference, at the Regimental HQ of his unit, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in Bury. Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty Images
Margaret Thatcher has died after stroke, aged 87. Photograph shows Thatcher in 1979 outside 10 Downing Street following her election as prime minister in May. She was Britain’s first female prime minister. From our gallery: Margaret Thatcher - a life in pictures
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Endangered garden birds continuing to decline in the UK, an RSPB survey shows. House sparrows, already an endangered species, fell by 17% on 2012 figures. Photograph: AlvecoteWood/Guardian Green Shoots/Flickr
Scientists say it is possible that there have never been fewer butterflies in Britain since it was first inhabited by humans due, in part, to the miserable weather of 2012. The orange-tip population (above) dropped by 34%. Habit loss and agricultural intensification mean that many species live in isolated colonies in small nature reserves, making them particularly vulnerable to extinction after adverse weather. Photograph: Butterfly Conservation
Morning Tumblr! Here’s a lovely example of the March snow we’ve had here in the UK over this weekend. This one taken by Future-Echoes and added to our Snow Flickr group
Oh little lamb!
It’s the third day of spring so why’s it sooooo coooold?
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Roy Lichtenstein’s retrospective flies into Tate Modern this week.
Great images on guardianartanddesign from the Lichtenstein exhibition
Some great pictures of the snow blanketing the UK coming in from Guardian readers. See more here (or click on the pic) and follow live updates
Amateur footage on Wednesday shows a plume of smoke coming from the scene of a helicopter crash in Vauxhall, south-west London. Burning fuel is strewn along a street. The aircraft is thought to have collided with a crane and come down in flames after cartwheeling to the ground. Two cars were also involved in the accident. Two people were confirmed to have been killed
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