“Libraries across Perthshire are about so much more than book borrowing, it’s incredibly short sighted to close them, once a library is gone it’s gone and the impact will be felt for years ahead,! MSP Mark Ruskell.
Around 100 people attended a rally in Scone at the weekend to oppose the closure of the town’s library.
At Holyrood last week Perthshire Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser raised the issue with Scottish Government culture minister Angus Robertson. Mr Ruskell had discussed the matter with representatives from Scone, Birnam and Comrie and PKC officials on Friday. “The council seems to be in retreat, withdrawing services like libraries and expecting overstretched rural communities to step in and run everything themselves. It’s not what people pay their Council Tax for. The communities I have spoken to are willing to discuss how services could be run differently in the future, but that can’t be a rushed conversation, there has to be respect and Culture Perth and Kinross must take the threat of imminent closure off the table first.
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