Britain’s national press hailed the establishment of yet another community library in Barnet in north London last month. They praised it as a victory for the local community, and for the squatters who ...

A campaign by the Occupy group and local residents have saved a library in Barnet. Friern Barnet library was scheduled to be closed but it was then taken over by Occupy squatters. Today, they handed ...

Walk into Friern Barnet Library in North London and you would think you were standing in a model public library. More than 1,000 fiction, non-fiction and children’s titles are stacked neatly on ...

Whose library is it anyway? After being closed by the Conservative council and then run by Occupy London, Friern Barnet Library is now in the hands of residents. But does this development represent a ...

Campaigners are to mark World Book Bay by staging a protest against cutbacks they claim have led to a fall in people visiting Barnet’s libraries. Save Barnet Libraries (SBL) is inviting people to ...

Scotland’s councils face a £647 million budget gap despite 6% increases, forcing service cuts and reserve depletion while local government workers battle for decent pay amid the continuing ...

Campaigners have vowed to keep fighting the "privatisation" of Barnet’s libraries after the council refused to back down on its stance of offering spaces to commercial tenants. An announcement from ...

A north London library where squatters opened a book-lending service has been handed to a group of residents to run. The squatters moved into Friern Barnet Library in September after Barnet Council ...

Squatters who set up a book-lending service in a library that was closed due to budget cuts can be evicted in six weeks, a judge has ruled. In September, members of Occupy London moved in to Friern ...

Walk into Friern Barnet Library in North London and you would think you were standing in a model public library. More than 1,000 fiction, non-fiction and children’s titles are stacked neatly on ...

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