No takers for Thatcher’s £5m bulletproof bus

Margaret Thatcher’s Eighties armoured bus used on her Northern Ireland tour is rusting away in a car lot after no buyer came forward in the five years it had been on sale.

The coach, which has bulletproof windows, sound proofing and enough room inside for 35 people, is struggling to attract a purchaser despite being in working order and with only 13,000 miles on the clock.

Mrs Thatcher commissioned the £5million bus to be made after the 1984 IRA bomb attack in Brighton, which killed five people, including Sir Anthony Berry, the Tory MP.