A meeting of Harrow Borough Council's cabinet has been cancelled after members of the authority's Labour group formed a breakaway faction.

The council's cabinet committee had been due to discuss the closure of Harrow Civic Centre library, which was to be merged with Gayton Library, in St John's Road.

Also on the agenda were plans to outsource library services in the borough to John Laing Integrated Services Ltd, which will also run the same service in neighbouring borough of Ealing, as well as the future organisation of Cannon Lane First School and Cannon Lane Junior School.

But the council's website showed the meeting had been cancelled after a group of Labour councillors disaffected by the replacement of former group leader Councillor Thaya Idaikkadar with Cllr David Perry today announced they had formed an 'Independent Labour' group.

See the Harrow Times website for updates.