Surrey stops buying most newspapers for libraries
LIBRARY users in Surrey are to be denied the enlightenment provided for them via the provision of right-wing papers.
Surrey County Council spends £60,000 a year supplying national and local newspapers to its libraries.
But the likes of the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, The Sun and The Times will no longer be stocked.
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