The CILIP survey estimates that library opening times across the country will be reduced by 1,720 hours a week. Annie Mauger, CILIP’s chief executive, said that according to further research as ...

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 ...

Despite the shameful number of empty homes in Britain residential squatting was criminalised in September 2012. It was therefore to the disdain of Barnet Conservatives that activists moved into the ...

The Save Friern Barnet Library say the new facility is not suitable but Councillor Richard Cornelius of Barnet Council says they have to cut costs.

Threats to Barnet library service News Oct 22, 2014 by Joshua Farrington Barnet's library service could be reduced to a fraction of its current size if the council go ahead with new proposals.

Friern Barnet library was closed down by Barnet council in April. Following new rules outlawing squatting in residential properties, the group of eight entered the building through an open window.

Campaigners are protesting against the closure of Friern Barnet library Campaigners have set up a "pop-up" library to protest against the closure of a north London facility. The library is on the ...

Eight-strong group become 'community librarians' with locals' support after law change forces them out of residential property ...

Despite this, 96% were within half an hour of a library, and every resident could reach one within an hour's walk. The ONS' figures show Barnet had 17 open libraries as of August, or one for every ...