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Pictured: A painting of a study of a kilim textile suspended in a doorway, bearing presentation inscription ‘Mrs. Thatcher, Remembering you Forever' was also part of the sale

A cache of forgotten gifts to Margaret Thatcher that were saved from a skip site have sold for £15,000.

The collection, including an oil painting of the former Prime Minister and a bronze bust of US President Ronald Reagan, had been locked away in a storage unit for years and forgotten about.

The general practice for storage units is to send any unclaimed items to landfill.

They were recovered by the vendor's father who worked at a tip in the London area when he salvaged them in the early 2000s.

He was allowed to take them home and when he died five years ago the items were handed down to his son.