SIR – It is both sad and shocking to read that half a million kids in this country are without a bed.

The Sun newspaper has  opened the way asking people to  donate  a spare bed for the cause, and knowing the people of this great nation, they will.

But how is this so? Is this really Great Britain of 2018? Where has it all gone so horribly wrong? Help from the Government should be a priority, and rather than dishing out so much of the tax payers money to overseas aid.

Some should be diverted to causes at home like this. It’s a shame we don’t think of our own young and elderly as  much as we do to foreign lands.

B ELLIS

Leominster