‘Brainless morons’ have trashed several books in a library in Stockport. Residents reported seeing the books set on fire on St Lesmo Road, in Edgeley, yesterday evening.
The book box, run by husband and wife team Ed and Jill, has fortunately survived — but the pair are facing reviving the library after being targeted for a second time. Mr Granter told the Manchester Evening News : “A friend of mine let me know he put the burning books at 9pm yesterday. I woke up at 5am this morning, I showed the photo of the books to my wife and she said they were from ours.”
In total, the heartless yobs got a stack of ‘five or six’ books and ripped them apart and set them alight. Despite the small amount of texts damaged, the library is popular, Ed continued. He said: “If you go on [social media group] Everything Edgeley, you can see all the comments on how much they loved it in lockdown. When I am gardening, I see people using it every few minutes.”
