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Kensal Rise Library Offered Lifeline

Posted at 6:07PM Saturday 02 Jun 2012

A historic library threatened with closure could survive as a community-run project on the basis of a tentative deal that has emerged just days after council workers backed by police carried out an early morning operation to strip it of its books and the plaque commemorating its opening 112 years ago by Mark Twain.

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