Pressure is mounting on Nottingham City Council after it announced plans to close three libraries across the city. A protest has already taken place at Basford Library, in Vernon Road, and campaigners are planning another at Aspley Library, in Nuthall Road, on Saturday (March 18).
A campaign group, called Save Nottingham Libraries, has organised the protests aiming to persuade the council to reverse its plans to close these two facilities as well as the Radford-Lenton Library, in Lenton Boulevard. The authority is looking to achieve £28m of savings this year, and councillors have already backed plans for some children's centres to close and some youth workers' jobs to be cut.
Stewart Halforty, one of the organisers of the protests, told Nottinghamshire Live: "People have a deep attachment to these libraries and they have used them throughout their lives. There are generations of families which will have used them and they are beautiful buildings, nothing like ones which are now being built.
