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Malorie Blackman: British Library exhibition celebrates author’s career
Best known for her dystopian young adults series Noughts and Crosses, the former Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman has become the first living author to have an exhibition of her life and work at the British Library.
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Kensington Council library plan on hold after Grenfell
(Library film footage used in this film, courtesy of film maker Daniel Renwick) In the shadow of Grenfell, plans by Kensington and Chelsea Council to lease the borough’s oldest library to the private Notting Hill Prep School may now be in the balance. After an impassioned campaign by residents to keep the library open to…
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Cerys Matthews: Kensington Council library plan ‘a class issue’
Singer and songwriter Cerys Matthews and local historian and campaigner Chris Bushell discuss Kensington Council’s library plans after the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Winterson calls for shake-up in library funding
In an exclusive interview ahead of the inaugural Reading Agency lecture, Jeanette Winterson says libraries are part of the “education of the country” and should be funded by central government.
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Hillsborough: inside the library of a cover-up
At the heart of the Hillsborough scandal were the attempts by South Yorkshire Police and other institutions to absolve themselves from blame – now available in an online library of 450,000 documents.
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Library campaigners win legal challenge
A judge rules that Somerset and Gloucestershire county councils failed to take account of their “equalities duties” when pushing through plans to close libraries.
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Real life ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ to spend money on library
A government clerk becomes the first person to win the big prize on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and plans to spend his winnings on building a library in his home town.
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Library campaigners lose high court challenge
Campaigners in Brent, north London, lose their high court bid to save six libraries from closure as Mr Justice Ouseley dismisses their application for judicial review.
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Lib Dem Minister in library row
Exclusive: A Liberal Democrat Minister is in hot water after telling her constituents to remove all the books out of her local library to prevent its closure, writes Cathy Newman.
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FactCheck: one in six universities rely on international students for more than a third of income
The regulator says reliance on foreign fees is an “increasingly precarious model”.
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More UK rioters jailed as police warn of new far right unrest
They have been jailed for throwing bricks at police officers, for looting a library, for inciting a crowd to turn violent.
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UK far-right riots: Liverpool reels from a night of violence
There was serious disorder in Liverpool last night too, where hundreds of rioters threw fireworks, attacked fire engines and set a library on fire.
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FactCheck: Liberal Democrats and Green party manifestos appear to feature images of South Africa and Netherlands
The Green party and Liberal Democrats have published their manifestos – but both include images that appear not to be located in the UK, such as a hospital in South Africa and a wind farm in the Netherlands, FactCheck has found.
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The Reform Party’s ‘Contract’ appears to feature images of Slovenia and Germany
The Reform Party has published its version of a manifesto, which it calls a “Contract”. Multiple images feature locations that appear to not be in the UK, including a family that appear to be in Slovenia and a fishing vessel displaying two German flags, in what seems to be German waters, FactCheck has found.
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500 years of music: exhibition challenges when Black British music began
From jazz to jungle, Black British music has topped the charts and inspired generations. Now a new exhibition charts its history and the places it was born, from the kerbsides, clubs, and carnivals. But it also goes way back before the 20th century – charting hundreds of years of Black musical history. I went down…