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September 19, 2008
Buckinghamshire to close even more libraries
It is only a year since Margaret Dewar, the hatchet wielding councillor responsible for public libraries in Buckinghamshire closed 8 of the smaller libraries in the county. This was done in the face if huge protest which was entirely justified.
Now this article reveals that even more are under threat. There were only about 30 to start with.
This news is the kind of thing that normally slips under the radar. It was the previous closures in Buckinghamshire that caused the Conservative Party to suggest that councils that propose to close libraries should at least notify the Minister of their intention, so that there was an opportunity for the facts of the matter to be discussed.. Unfortunately that plan came to nothing.
Of course one cries out feebly for The Minister, DCMS or MLA to raise a hand in protest, but Mrs Dewar is a tough old stick and one can be sure she will take no nonsense from that direction, for nonsense, sadly, it will be.
Poor old Buckinghamshire, again.
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Posted by Perkins at September 19, 2008 8:36 AM