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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

The library is on the green opposite Friern Barnet library, which was shut earlier this month to cut council spending. Save Friern Barnet Library group said it had been used by thousands of people who ...

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 ...

About 11 people refused to leave Friern Barnet Library for five hours after Barnet Council decided at a meeting on Wednesday night to shut the facility. The council said the decision was taken last ...

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 ...

The council has agreed that the community group can take over the premises for the next two years A north London library where squatters opened a book-lending service has been handed to a group of ...