SIR – People must be paying too much for the television licence because the amount of money being handed out when people leave the BBC is just outrageous.

I see one fellow received £450,000.

I know it‘s easy to be generous when the money is not your own.

The money should go into making decent programmes instead of filling the screen with cooking programmes.

So come on BBC, stop being so generous with our money and make some decent programmes.

JOHN SHEARON

Worcester