Richard Todd actor also narrated at least one TV documentary about the Dambusters and contributed forewords to many books on the subject, including "The Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2003), "Filming the Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2005) and most recently "Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis" by Iain Murray (2009). Todd died at his home near Grantham, Lincolnshire on 3 December 2009. His body was buried between his two sons Seamus and Peter at St. Guthlac's Church in Little Ponton, in the county of Lincolnshire. The gravestone's epitaph reads – "Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd, 1919–2009, husband of Virginia and
Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Palace of Westminster) Baroness Thatcher in real life. Comparisons were made with such statues as the statue of Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament in Parliament Square which measures high. The only statue suggested which was shorter than that of Margaret Thatcher in the Houses of Parliament, was that of Captain Cook near the Greenwich Observatory, which is only high. Once installed, the statue of Thatcher left only three former Prime Ministers missing from being represented in the Members Lobby: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Bonar Law and Neville Chamberlain. The statue's arrival was not welcomed by all MPs; the Labour MP Stephen Hepburn