We, the undersigned, support Gail Coleshill's campaign to protect our rural mobile library service.

News that this service is proposed for cuts by B&NES Council in rural areas could see more than thirty villages without a mobile library.

These include:

Monkton Combe, Hinton Charterhouse, Corston, Newton St Loe, Englishcombe, Priston, Tunley, Camerton, Dunkerton, Wellow, Combe Hay, Midford, South Stoke, Bathford, Nempnett Thrubwell, Stanton Drew, Shoscombe, Chewton Keynsham, Compton Dando, Hunstrete, Publow, West Harptree, Coley, Hinton Blewitt, Stanton Wick, Chelwood, Cameley, North Stoke, Marksbury, Farmbrough, Farrington Gurney, High Littleton, Norton Malreward and Whitchurch.

Rather than a consultation on cuts to the service we should be consulting on how to get more residents interested in using the mobile service and what they want and need from such a service.

People in these villages are fed up with being sidelined by the Council. Creating sustainable communities should mean getting services to people and communities and not asking them to make lots of individual journeys to centralised locations.