A community has come together in a celebration of its unbeatable spirit to mark the rebirth of a hub targeted and torched by vandals during the height of the summer riots. It left a vital community asset in one of the country's most deprived communities out of action.
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00:00A community has come together in a celebration of its unbeatable spirit to mark the rebirth
00:06of a hub targeted and torched by vandals during the height of the summer riot.
00:10The library, which had only reopened in March last year, was targeted as bins were set alight
00:15and shops were looted. It left a vital community asset in one of the country's most deprived
00:20communities out of action.
00:22After a remarkable public fundraising campaign which generated £250,000 for the renovation
00:28of the site, a show of solidarity lit up Walton to mark the reopening of the library.
00:33A 300-strong lantern parade swept from Goodison Road before a symbolic light switch on outside
00:38Spellow Hub.
00:39The rise of Spellow was also marked nationwide with the British Library in London among one
00:44of 135 sites across the country shining a light to mark the occasion. Scores of libraries
00:50from Lancashire and Newcastle to Southampton and Cornwall took part.
00:54The theme of light has been used to symbolise libraries as places of sanctuary, knowledge
00:58and community.