NEED more evidence for the value of our libraries?

Try this.

I’m writing about Thomas Penketh and needed a rare book.

Warrington Library put me on to the British Library.

This book was so rare, even they didn’t have it.

But they quickly tracked it down to the library at St Andrew’s university in Scotland.

Within days it was waiting for me at Stockton Heath library, all for £5.25.

And, as if to top that, my next request was for chapter three of another book as rare as the first one.

No problem.

A photocopy of the chapter I want will be with me in a few days.

Again, a bargain at £5.25, especially when this book costs £198.

So, Warrington libraries are brilliant, helpful and well worth the cost.

They are a bastion of civilised living.

BILL COOKE Stockton Heath