SO now it's the libraries - both public and school - being hit, and this miserable council can add another title to its lengthy list. Philistines!

And they have the nerve to put up a spokesperson for culture and the arts to speak for them. What cultured person closes libraries? People of culture open libraries.

I am old enough to remember a long time way into the past; into the early 1930s when libraries opened 9am-8pm Monday-Friday and 9am-5pm on Saturdays. No closures for lunch, a straight 63 hours per week for public use. These lengthy opening hours continued, more or less, unchanged until I reached my middle 50s. The library service was always available. Even though children were not allowed inside the hallowed portals until they were seven years old and silence reigned throughout the library.

Through two world wars and the great depression of the 30s the libraries remained open.

Now it's Close them down', cut their opening hours!' Of course the user numbers are decreasing, the libraries are never open.

In Trafford, babies can apply for library membership whilst still in the womb. However, they can't withdraw a book with the same ease allowed to a child of seven in 1930.

This council has spent £11,000 this summer on luxurious accommodation for themselves and senior town hall officers. That money would have kept the libraries open for many years.

A bitter and outraged life long library user Hilda Laffey, the 60+ Protest Group Moorside Road, Flixton