I WRITE regarding your article, “Call for fight to save library from closure” (Gazette & Herald, October 29). As a former Norton town councillor, born and bred in Norton, and a regular user of Norton library for more than 40 years, I applaud any efforts to try to save Norton library from closure.

Having said that, your article failed to point out why Norton library is in danger of extinction, along with many other libraries in North Yorkshire and beyond.

The main reason is the farcical economic policies and savage cuts forced upon public service providers over the past four years by an uncaring Coalition Government of Conservatives and Lib Dems.

Since 2010, hundreds of libraries have been closed around the country by local councils starved of funding by a Government whose policies have targeted the most vulnerable members of society.

Meanwhile, behind the illusion of stability that the Government tries to foist upon society, the media, local councillors and people in general, the rubber-stamping of library closures goes on in an interminable degrading of all that really matters to people like me and you.

As a campaigner on many issues over the years in Norton, Malton and elsewhere, I know what it’s like when you are trying to fight against and influence the decision-making process of the establishment behemoth.

So it’s come on Lib Dems in your efforts to save Norton library from closure, after all it’s the least you can do after the last four years.

H Griffiths, Pickering