Check this out…

Residents in the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset were so distraught at losing their library and ‘phone box in quick succession, that they bought the latter from BT for £1, and turned it into the former.

Phone box library

Yes, that’s a ‘phone box library right there – with 100 books waiting to be borrowed (so long as you drop a book off in return, that is).  A triumph for local people power over the current trend of library closures.

Read the full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8385313.stm

Brilliant stuff!

Tommy

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