'David Cameron's faith in the "big society'' is to be put to the test after Oxfordshire county council announced that professional staff are to be removed from six libraries in his Witney constituency, leaving them to be staffed by volunteers.

The culture minister Ed Vaizey will also see two libraries in his neighbouring constituency of Wantage stripped of staff by the Conservative-controlled county council, leaving a mix of volunteers and professional staff to run them.

The council has decided to keep only 22 of the constituency's 43 libraries fully staffed, but had planned to close 20. Cameron will be relieved that libraries are to be kept open in Banbury, Chipping Norton and Witney within his constituency.'

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