Public libraries in 'crisis' as councils cut services

Getty ImagesMore than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016, BBC analysis has found.More deprived communities were four times more likely to have lost a publicly-funded library in that time, while 2,000 jobs have also been lost.The figures “laid bare the scale of the crisis facing public libraries", a body that supports the insitutions across the…