A raucous cheer that went up in a packed county court room in Barnet this week could reverberate around the nation's town halls this winter. As David Cameron prepared to deliver his "aspiration nation ...

“Barnet claims to know what people want. But if you go into some of the libraries in Barnet, I would have to say that they probably don’t know what people want.” Nick Mahony talks to the Chair of ...

Britain’s national press hailed the establishment of yet another community library in Barnet in north London last month. They praised it as a victory for the local community, and for the squatters who ...

A campaign by the Occupy group and local residents have saved a library in Barnet. Friern Barnet library was scheduled to be closed but it was then taken over by Occupy squatters. Today, they handed ...

Squatters who have occupied a north London library for more than three months with the blessing of the local community are to be evicted, a judge has ruled. However, the court recognised their right ...

Campaigners have vowed to keep fighting the "privatisation" of Barnet’s libraries after the council refused to back down on its stance of offering spaces to commercial tenants. An announcement from ...

Walk into Friern Barnet Library in North London and you would think you were standing in a model public library. More than 1,000 fiction, non-fiction and children’s titles are stacked neatly on ...

Joanna Fryer: It is called Friern Barnet Community Library, run by the community, and rescued by the Occupy movement. The occupiers lived in the building for five months and when the eviction notice ...