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      <title>An update on libraries in Sutton Coldfield</title>
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      <description>Following the cabinet decision on 11 February to transform the library services, Sutton Coldfield’s town centre library will close on 27 June.</description>
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      <title>Library of Birmingham celebrates 10th anniversary</title>
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      <description>We’re celebrating the life of libraries over 150 years in the city to mark the 10th anniversary of the Library of Birmingham.</description>
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      <title>Birmingham’s libraries declare amnesty on late fees</title>
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      <description>People using the city’s libraries will not have to pay outstanding fees on overdue books, it has been announced today (28 December).</description>
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      <title>Birmingham libraries to start re-opening </title>
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      <description>Libraries across Birmingham will start to re-open this month for an order and collect service.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Druids Heath library update</title>
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      <description>It has been confirmed that repairs to the heating system at Druids Heath library will start this week.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bringing Shakespeare alive for Birmingham communities</title>
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      <description>National Lottery funding enables Birmingham to re-connect with ‘trailblazingly democratic’ Shakespeare heritage</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Birmingham’s new Poet Laureate and Young Poet Laureate announced</title>
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      <description>Richard O’Brien has been named as the new Birmingham Poet Laureate during a National Poetry Day event held at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University this evening (4 October).</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Book celebrating city's female achievers features stunning images by Birmingham artists</title>
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      <description>A new book celebrating 30 inspirational Birmingham women has been brought to life by a stunning collection of portraits created by an all-female team of illustrators.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New exhibition remembers Birmingham’s First World War</title>
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      <description>Birmingham’s role in the First World War and the impact it had on the city and wider West Midlands is the focus of a new exhibition which opens at the Library of Birmingham next month (5 October).</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>City pupils to open Windrush exhibition at the Library of Birmingham</title>
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      <description>Birmingham school children will meet members of the Windrush generation, as they open a community exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Empire Windrush’s arrival in Britain, this week.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2018 13:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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