Libraries

Goole Library - a large grey and red brick building with full-length windows and an overhanging canopy.

Library set for £450k refurbishment

New areas for children are among the planned improvements.

Three people are stood around theatre stage lighting hanging from a rail.

Culture venues get £8m cash boost to secure future

The money is part of the government's £1.5bn Arts Everywhere Fund.

The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art is a tall red-brick building on the River Tyne. Near the top, black bricks are laid in way that spells Baltic Flour Mills. The white Millennium Bridge is in the foreground of the photograph with tall buildings and a crane in the background.

Venues, museums and libraries awarded £13m

Organisations in Cumbria and north-east England receive a share of a £130m national fund.

Eight ballet dancers dressed in blue swishy clothing under blue lighting. Most are low on the floor, one is lit more brightly and reaching upwards with one arm.

Cultural venues to receive share of £11m cash pot

Sixteen cultural venues in Yorkshire and the Humber will receive a share of the funding.

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£19.7m boost for libraries, theatres and museums

Thirteen cultural sites across the West Midlands handed cash to boost accessibility to the arts.

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Culture and arts venues to share £6.6m funding

The venues include museums, art galleries and library services across the region.

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Alesha Dixon backs free book scheme

The Walsall free book scheme links literacy with future financial wellbeing.

Lydia is in a pink hoodie standing in front of a rainbow-coloured wooden fence with 'Lydia's Library' next to her. It is a small wooden hut with two glass doors filled with books.

Seven-year-old's wish to own a library comes true

Lydia Lawless says she has enjoyed watching other children enjoy her little library.

A picture from the exhibition with Alice holding an flamingo-like bird.

New display takes visitors 'down the rabbit hole'

Sir John Tenniel illustrations for Lewis Carroll's story will tour the borough until December.

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