Human rights experts have been called in to help Somerset County Council improve it's decision making.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been invited by the authority and their counterparts in Gloucestershire, after a judge ruled library cuts were "unlawful" - because they failed to comply with "public sector equality duties."

The council says the move would have saved one-point-three million pounds which must now be found elsewhere - but residents said the cuts would disadvantage groups such as the elderly, single mothers and the disabled.