I THINK it is criminal that the project for the new stadium to be built at Wembley has received £103 million from the lottery fund, when hospitals can't cope at present because they cannot afford to pay nurses for their excellent services.

I think whoever is handing this money out ought to be sacked, especially when it's to pay for blokes to kick a bag of wind up and down. It is just not on.

KEITH HARTLEY, St Michael's Court, Daisyfield, Blackburn.

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