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Barclays will close another 14 branches in the UK

Barclays confirms more high street branch closures across the UK

A rare first edition 1996 Bloomsbury publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone purchased from a library for pennies is set to fetch up to £5,000 at auction.

Harry Potter book bought for 30p turns out to be worth £5,000

Library advisor Anna Plichta-Les pictured at the Children's Library Edinburgh

Libraries are a treasured resource - Steve Cardownie

A  Bookbug session at Central Children's Library in Edinburgh. Picture: John Devlin

Support Our Libraries: A celebration of Edinburgh Central Children's Library

A  Bookbug session at Central Children's Library in Edinburgh. (Picture credit: John Devlin)

Support Our Libraries: A celebration of Edinburgh Central Children's Library

Photo credit Oliver Goulden

Support our Libraries: Protesters gather for 'read in' amid closures

Libraries are a gateway to adventure

Save our Libraries: Time travel with a library card - Liam Rudden

Danderhall library

Midlothian libraries to end DVD and CD fines to encourage more users

Central Library, Edinburgh

Read all about it: Edinburgh libraries scoop top award

The well-designed soup-can inspired library which was sadly vandalised (Photo: Little Free Library - Wester Hailes).

Little street libraries springing up around Wester Hailes to improve literacy

Central Library is one of six due to open on October 6

Six libraries to open a week earlier than planned

Community centres and libraries in the Capital will not reopen fully to the public for at least another four weeks.

Libraries and community centres closed for four more weeks

This is when libraries in Scotland might reopen (Photo: Shutterstock)

When will libraries reopen?

Revealed - the most borrowed books of the year. Have your favourites made the li...

Digital libraries experience a surge in membership amid lockdown

Boris Johnson ordered the public to stay at home during a TV broadcast on Monday night (Getty Images)

What are the UK’s lockdown procedures?
The Prime Minister has placed the UK on lockdown as the government seeks to stem the spread of coronavirus – here’s everything you need to know

The council agreed a budget which means 88m of cuts over the next three yeats

Edinburgh council budget agreed as plans to cut library opening hours dropped

The proposed cut would have seen Edinburgh's libraries closed on Saturday afternoons to save 300,000

Edinburgh council chiefs drop proposed cut in library hours and reconsider idea ...

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