Plans for cuts in mobile library services will mean axeing trips to a fast-growing estate, reports the Colchester Evening Gazette.
Library bosses have also indefinitely postponed plans for a permanent libraery in High Woods, Colchester. Community services supremo Iris Pummell confirmed it would not be built, as there was no cash available.
Colchester councillor Gerard Oxford (Ind, High Woods) has said the double whammy would penalise elderly and disabled residents, and undermine work to combat illiteracy.
A number of other mobile library stops are set to go, including one at Brinkley Grove Primary School.
Brinkley Grove head teacher Gillian Jasper said: "The mobile library plays a key role in helping our children to enjoy reading and developing their reading skills. Lots of children have benefited greatly from having regular and easy access.
Mr Oxford added: "It’s very frustrating because this is only going to save them a few thousand pounds for each stop."
- Article contributed by: Mr & Mrs L.C. M, Colchester
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Monday, 27 November 2006
Friday, 28 July 2006
Dorset: County council cuts libraries
The Blackmore Vale magazine reports on page 124 that swingeing cuts are being planned to Dorset's libraries in a bid by the County Council to bridge a funding gap.
The article states that: "A reduction in social care provision and the closure of a number of libraries across the county will not bridge Dorset County Council's funding gap.
"Further measures, including redundancies at County Hall are to be taken over the next three years to achieve potential savings of £20 million."
Surely it can't be right that the government is unable to find the money to provide Dorset with enough to sustain these essential local services, but can find the money to increase payments to the audit-failing EU by an extremely generous 63%.
Let's hope Dorset's MPs don't vote for such an obvious failure to properly prioritise scarce public resources, when the EU budget deal that pledged this increase comes before Parliament for approval.
Certainly the claims of MPs that vote for the terrible EU deal will never be able to claim credibly that they are standing up for public services.
Article submitted by: B.W., Dorset
The article states that: "A reduction in social care provision and the closure of a number of libraries across the county will not bridge Dorset County Council's funding gap.
"Further measures, including redundancies at County Hall are to be taken over the next three years to achieve potential savings of £20 million."
Surely it can't be right that the government is unable to find the money to provide Dorset with enough to sustain these essential local services, but can find the money to increase payments to the audit-failing EU by an extremely generous 63%.
Let's hope Dorset's MPs don't vote for such an obvious failure to properly prioritise scarce public resources, when the EU budget deal that pledged this increase comes before Parliament for approval.
Certainly the claims of MPs that vote for the terrible EU deal will never be able to claim credibly that they are standing up for public services.
Article submitted by: B.W., Dorset
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