Squatters who have occupied a north London library for more than three months with the blessing of the local community are to be evicted, a judge has ruled. However, the court recognised their right ...

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 ...

A raucous cheer that went up in a packed county court room in Barnet this week could reverberate around the nation's town halls this winter. As David Cameron prepared to deliver his "aspiration nation ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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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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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 ...