What an utter waste of billions of pounds paid to stage the Olympics in London, would it not been better to spend that money on our hospitals, stop the closure of A&E departments, instead it going to a dozen British athletes when it could have benefited millions of British people Some might see me as a spoilsport or old grump, but when I see adverts on the television like the Great Ormond Street Hospital asking for donations, it makes me despair.

I wonder if it would have been better just to buy 12 gold medals.

M M Thompson, Colne.