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Le Carré backs fight to save Hay library

The town is home to the Hay Festival&#160;
The town is home to the Hay Festival Christopher Jackson/Getty Images

It is home to the world’s best known literary festival and dozens of bookshops but now Hay-on-Wye is having to fight to save its only public library.

Residents will have to raise £7,000 a year to subsidise the running costs and keep the library open after the local council cut funding by 30 per cent. Campaigners in the Welsh border town, which has 30 secondhand and antiquarian shops, have been backed by the novelist John le Carré.

The author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has donated proceeds from the video of his 2013 festival appearance.

Peter Florence, director of the Hay Festival, said: “Hay is a book town, it can’t not have a library. This town of all towns should be able to find the…

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