Well, it now appears that we are to lose all the librarys in West Berks apart from Newbury. We are always being told that people don't read enough and it seems the solution is to remove the books. Ray Bradbury would be so proud.

It seems we can afford coffee shops, cafés, water features, Newbury 'Gateways', robes and pageantry and all the rest of the flummery that this council deems necessary yet we can't afford books. What a truly sad indictment of a failing council.

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." Stewart Brand.