Author Mark Billingham supports the Save Barnets Libraries Campaign

Mark Billingham is a Barnet resident whose best-selling novels include Barnet locations such as Colindale Police Station and The British Newspaper Library. He created the character Detective Inspector Tom Thorne whose exploits have been adapted into the successful Sky One TV series ‘Thorne’ in which the role is played by David Morrisey.

Mark has joined a 1,000 other residents by signing the ‘Save Our Libraries’ petition online. He comments:

Without the use of my local library when I was a kid I would never have discovered books and, put simply, my life would not have been changed for the better. We should fight tooth and nail to keep every library open.

You can join Mark and sign the petition online here:

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petition/39319.html

Local Tory Library supremo, Councillor Robert Rams takes a different view to Mark on Libraries. He stated that people should get books from their local Tescos and that local libraries could be turned into branches of Starbucks. That is what we are up against !