RAWDON Community Library has taken on a festive air thanks to a gift of money for Christmas lights.

The library has been given £315 for Christmas decorations from the MICE money of ward councillors, which is earmarked to help projects of benefit to the local community. Lights have now been put up around the outside of the building at Micklefield Park and more will be put up inside along with a Christmas tree.

Volunteer Helen Germaine put the idea to Guiseley and Rawdon councillor Graham Latty and was delighted when he and his wife Cllr Pat Latty got back quickly and agreed funding.

"We would like to say a big thank you to Mr and Mrs Latty," she said.

Campaigners and volunteers fought a long battle to save their library from closure and it was officially opened as a community library two years ago.

A group was formed to save the library after Leeds City Council announced proposals to close it.

A petition with more than 600 names was presented to the council and volunteers were given a year to prove they could sustain the library.

In August 2013 a lease was signed for the transfer of the library to the community.