{"id":15241,"date":"2023-08-31T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:27:47","slug":"stop-the-closure-of-the-mobile-library-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/?p=15241","title":{"rendered":"Stop the closure of the mobile library service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-15241\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-15241-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-15241-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-15241-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Save Devon's Mobile Libraries <\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div id=\"attachment_15242\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1.webp\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15242\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1.webp 810w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1-768x511.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1-570x380.webp 570w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1-380x254.webp 380w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1-285x190.webp 285w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1-272x182.webp 272w, https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Mobile-1-720x480.webp 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Devon County Council<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The campaign to save Devon\u2019s mobile libraries from closure by Devon County Council has now reached more than 4000 online signatures and hundreds more paper signatures, with support from a whole host of celebrities and authors including Stephen Fry and Michael Morpurgo.<\/p>\n<p>To sign the petition online\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/SaveOurMobileLibrary\">https:\/\/www.change.org\/SaveOurMobileLibrary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This petition calls on Devon County Council to keep the mobile library service running in Devon, especially here where we have many very rural and isolated areas which really benefit from its service.<\/p>\n<p>Please sign and share this petition to help save our mobile libraries before the final decision is made by county councillors in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign to save the mobile library service has attracted national attention and support from Stephen Fry and Michael Rosen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-y70mar\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/jul\/31\/online-campaign-save-devon-mobile-library-services-stephen-fry-michael-rosen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authors join online campaign to save \u2018vital\u2019 Devon mobile library services<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would rather sign\u00a0the petition in person then\u00a0please visit the <strong>Brentor Village Hall on\u00a0Saturday 2 September during the Summer Fete and Produce Show between 9:30 and 3:00 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-15241-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign to save Devon\u2019s mobile libraries from closure by Devon County Council has now reached more than 4000 online signatures and hundreds more paper signatures, with support from a whole host of celebrities and authors including Stephen Fry and Michael Morpurgo. To sign the petition online\u00a0 https:\/\/www.change.org\/SaveOurMobileLibrary This petition calls on Devon County Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-information","category-featured","category-news","category-ongoing-community-issues","category-parish-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15244,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions\/15244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brentorpc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}