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Library to close for refurbishment

Jesmond library is scheduled to close on Monday 14 March to allow improvements to the Community Room, provision of public toilet facilities, rewiring and the installation of new issue facilities. Many of the improvements will be paid for from the ward capital fund, following decisions made by the Lib Dem ward councillors. The total cost of the work is close to £80,000.

24 Feb 2011
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SURREY LIBRARIES: Lib Dems call for Cabinet to scrap plans following vote

Following the decision by the call in meeting of Surrey County Council's 'Safer and Stronger Communities' Select Committee to ask the Council's Conservative Cabinet to look again at proposals to ask local communites to run 11 branch libraries or else they will closed, as the first stage in reducing the library network to a core service and to end the mobile library service, Hazel Watson, the Liberal Democrat Leader on Surrey County Council said:

24 Feb 2011
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The Devil Is In The Detail

 Liberal Democrats on Shropshire Council have slammed large sections of the Schools Report adopted by the Conservative Cabinet today.

24 Feb 2011
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