Heritage fans lamenting the loss of Birmingham’s brutalist Central Library can pick up a slice of its history for £500 a go. Large oak desks used by generations of Brummie students and academics to ...

A new use of technology by a support group for the Columbia Public Library holds the prospect of ushering in a new way of reading. In addition to its regular book sales, Friends of the Columbia Public ...

A LIBRARY worker is being investigated by police after thousands of pounds worth of rare books and documents vanished from Manchester's Central Library. The losses came to light after someone ...

A brazen book thief stole hundreds of non-fiction titles from libraries and sold them on eBay and Amazon Marketplace 'for the buzz'. John Nicolaides travelled across the country on his 'unusual' crime ...

A town hall has raised more than £12,000 selling off unwanted library books over the past two years. Old stock from Manchester libraries has been passed on to a firm to be re-sold on websites such as ...

A LIBRARIAN who stole rare books from her workplace to sell online was jailed yesterday. Elizabeth Macregor, 57, even tried to burn some of the titles on a bonfire as police closed in. Macregor ...