'Thatcher's dead' text message sparks government panic

Canadian Transport Minister John Baird sent a text message to a number of his political friends reading: "Thatcher has died", inadvertently causing a diplomatic crisis earlier this week.

Baird was in fact been announcing the death of his cat, named after the Iron Lady.

[via The Mirror]

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