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STORY: Sunderland City Council has called time on the City Library in Fawcett Street – setting its closure date for November 19.

Amy Louise Fairhurst: As a trainee teacher, I would like to know how are we meant to encourage kids and their parents to learn at home when the council is reducing resources? They library is relocating to the winter gardens, but where in the winter gardens? Surely, this means some of the exhibition spaces will need to be removed to make way for this change?

Jack Murray: It isn’t closing though is it? It’s moving back to where it used to be, and with the rise of ebooks and the internet, less and less people are reading in libraries. Even still, it’s literally 100 or so yards from where it currently is, so it isn’t even affecting people who still want to go to the library.

Heather Fagan: The council spent £250k moving the library to that building just three years ago. Shame it didn’t plan better as it’s been a huge waste of money.

Kev Miller: Makes you laugh when you look at South Tyneside. It is due to open a brand new state-of-the-art library that looks amazing. Begs the question, which one is the city and which one is the town?