WE see on the news and read in the papers about the dreadful things that are happening in Africa, children dying of starvation, drinking filthy water, malaria from mosquito bites, and in Syria families being bombed out of existence by fanatical men or having to flee and live in refugee camps.

Then you see on TV an advert for a hotel costing £9,000 per night.

If that does not prove there is a great divide between the have and have-nots, nothing will.

Maureen Robinson, Broadway, York