AFTER the fiasco at the immigration centre at Yarl's Wood one has to ask why it is happening to this country. This centre cost the taxpayer £100million and we now hear that there was £35million-worth of damage done.

All this money is spent on people who have put nothing into our country, yet elderly people who have worked all their lives face being thrown on to the street.

JOHN FARRER, Mallard Place, Oswaldtwistle.