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michael rosen, children's author and former children's laureate, describes how he feels about the closureswell, it distresses me. i feel angry about it and i feel sad about it. i'm angry because i see this as disadvantaging the disadvantaged. it makes people poorer who are already poor in having access to books and literacy, so that makes me sad and angry both. it also deprives them of what you just described, their safe public spaces, and libraries in britain and all over the world. they provide much more than books these days. they provide access to digital digital platforms of all kinds, and also they're places where events go on, so they become very social. and i do events in libraries myself. i do readings for little ones performances, or i do readings about what's happened to me in my adult life, too. for adults. these events are nearly always free, and this encourages people to read and inquire and to find out about the world beyond themselves. but also, of course, libraries are places where you can find out more about yourself. you can regard them as mirrors as well as windows or d

we also hear the latest from the author michael rosen talking about the closure of so many librariesal systems, these old weather fronts if you'd like, just bringing bands of cloud, some bits and pieces of shy rearranging some clear spells in between quite misty and murky and places, not as muqqy and murky and places, not as muggy as last night across the south—east, 14 london dropping all the way down to four in the highlands. tomorrow, we will have those old weather fronts bring areas of cloud, some showers, it will break out through the day. some heavy once across eastern england, a cluster of heavy showers drifting southwards across scotland, but one or two showers elsewhere. some spells of sunshine as well. it will be quite a cool fresh day compared to some we've had recently. 49th in 20 degrees. into thursday, this weather system here drops its way southwards and tends to combined with his broad area of low pressure spending over continental europe. that is going to bring some rain. in fact it could be quite a lot of rain that affects southern england, wales, england as we go t

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and the former children's laureate michael rosen laments the loss of britain's libraries. sangry, that's what i am, sad and angry about this, that this wonderful facility that we've had, and perhaps taken for granted, has been eroded just bit by bit, taking it away from us. and coming up on bbc news, jack draper is being hailed as the new king of british tennis after reaching the quarterfinals of the us open. he will play alex de minaur next. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attacked the uk's decision to suspend some arms sales to his country as shameful and misguided. he said the move would embolden hamas, but the defence secretary john healey has defended the legaljudgment. it marks a shift in the uk's approach to the conflict from the positon held by the previous conservative government. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. from supporters of the israeli government, outrage. don'tabandon israel, they shouted outside of the foreign office this morning. earlier the uk chief rabbi had shar

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