SIR – It must anger many people who are struggling with rising costs and low wage rises to hear that Britain has handed over more than £1 billion to Nigeria – a country with vast oil reserves which is attempting to launch its own rockets to put its astronauts into space.

So far this year Nigeria has accepted £300 million – this in a country where 70 per cent of its people live below the poverty line yet its oil revenues total about £40 billion a year.

A country that in 2011 spent £31 million on importing champagne.

G B DIPPER

Leominster