Brent Council is planning to close six

libraries in the borough – they claim in order

to ‘improve the library service’. How you

improve a library service by closing libraries is

mysterious. Brent Council says that it cannot

afford to run these libraries because it is in an

extremely difficult financial position; however

according to its website it will be spending £100

million on a new Civic Centre in Wembley. It

would cost only 1% of that, £1 million,…