Set in stark contrast with the widespread cutback in library services by cash-strapped local authorities is a rising tide of local communities determined that these hubs of town and village life should not suffer the fate of red telephone boxes and disappear forever from Britain's cultural landscape. It is a fight that is seeing communal spirit making a dent in an all-pervasive economic nihilism.
The former coal mining town of Newbold Verdon, Leicester, has the first fully funded library built by the National Lottery, where its feisty manager, Christina Baker, has successfully created a community hub in a village without
The former coal mining town of Newbold Verdon, Leicester, has the first fully funded library built by the National Lottery, where its feisty manager, Christina Baker, has successfully created a community hub in a village without
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