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 ...

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 ...

“Barnet claims to know what people want. But if you go into some of the libraries in Barnet, I would have to say that they probably don’t know what people want.” Nick Mahony talks to the Chair of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The government is to investigate the reduction of Barnet Council's library provision following complaints and protests from campaigners, a step that could lead on to a local inquiry. Libraries ...

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