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At the conference back in January I asked Ben
Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture, and Liz
Forgan, Chair of Arts Council England, if they (their
organisations, I suppose) knew how much VAT the arts contributed to the
national coffers, in compari

The writer Lee Hall has written an open letter to the leader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes, about the proposed closure of the majority of Newcastle's libraries. He is yet to receive a reply. Here's the letter:

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