Aberdeenshire Council says it would rather have engaged fully with communities before announcing closures.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council hopes volunteers will help it expand library services.

Reasons given for closing the sites included low usage and buildings no longer being suitable.

Live Life Aberdeenshire said the locations were seeing lower numbers of users in recent years.

One library user and volunteer says she is losing sleep over the proposals.

Staff and school librarians at Gorse Hill Primary School create a new library for pupils and their families.

The council says it hopes to replace it with more effective library services

Residents will be given free packets of seeds to help establish seed libraries across the city.