( Reuters ) - British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher has been taken to hospital, the BBC reported on Friday.
The broadcaster said Thatcher, 82, was taken to a hospital in south London for "precautionary tests."
In 2002, Thatcher suffered a series of strokes and, on the orders of her doctors, ended a grueling round of public speaking engagements.
Thatcher was Britain's first female prime minister, governing for more than a decade after her election in 1979, and earning a reputation as one of the most formidable politicians of her era.