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So this is Christmas… (John Lennon) Next week closes off 2023. As usual, a series of bigger bangs, fiery flashes and planet pollutants will mark the new year by scorching skies around the globe....
So this is Christmas… (John Lennon) Next week closes off 2023. As usual, a series of bigger bangs, fiery flashes and planet pollutants will mark the new year by scorching skies around the globe....
Community / Local elections / Public services / Uncategorized
by FPP manager · Published October 23, 2023 · Last modified October 26, 2023
With thanks to my friend AW for his critique and helpful editing advice. Warning: trigger happy writing The trigger or inspiration for this piece was the combination of a meeting with our local MP...
A final contribution to the entertaining and informative series of blogs– loosely linked to the history of Folkestone Library –by Professor Carolyn Oulton, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University ‘He had no doubt...
Free tickets for the Library campaign and Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A personal reflection after 3 months of The Save Our Library campaign by Jon O’Connor. A little Latin does you good – the...
Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University finds yet another entertaining and thought-provoking insight into the story of Grace Hill Library…. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Young woman to her brother,...
Another article from Professor Carolyn Oulton on the curious history of Folkestone’s Library and one of the more famous contributors to the collection of writers locked away inside Grace Hill! It was meant to...
Grace Hill Library early history…. A series of blogs written for the Save Our Library campaign by Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University If you’re finding it hard to think about summer reading...
Community / Local elections / Public services / Uncategorized
by FPP manager · Published March 27, 2023
The shocking announcement by Kent County Council that Folkestone’s main public library is to close has sent ripples of rage throughout the local community. Politicians are carefully setting our their position ahead of the...
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Thank you for representing all of us fighting our separate but clearly interconnected battles against the attack on all our #libraries.
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Petition · Save Shropshire’s School Library Service - United Kingdom ·
All our libraries matter.
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"To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.”
Vincent Van Gogh
Funding cuts hurt those with precious little left to lose.
@Porchlight1974 could do with some support right now.
For sure. Strategic misery.
If we see this can KCC?
@kentlibraries @KCCpressdesk
Responses welcome
Positive policies even more so.