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Dion Dublin predicts big things from Leicester City next season
Leicester City will be contenders for promotion again next season, believes former striker Dion Dublin.
Dublin, who was born in Leicester and played for the club between 2004 and 2006, said Nigel Pearson's men should draw confidence from how close they went to reaching the play-off final last season.
Dublin also thinks City can do even better in the coming campaign.
They kick off the new season with a trip to Middlesbrough on August 3, followed by the visit of Leeds to the King Power Stadium a week later, and Dublin believes City must make a good start
"I am certainly confident that Leicester can continue on their good form from the back-end of last season," he said.
"It can take a whole summer to recover from the heartache that Leicester suffered at the end of last season.
"The players will be disappointed but, when you get so close to achieving, you know you are good enough.
"The players will still have that belief and they will go into the season thinking that, if they don't drop their standards, they will at least get to where they were last time.
"If they can up their game early on, they will find themselves doing even better.
"Really, they should have gone up automatically, they were in a situation in the middle of the season when they were doing fantastic and they fell away."
Sandwiched between the opening two league games is a first trip to Adams Park to face Wycombe in the first round of the Capital One Cup, and Dublin believes a good cup run will help City's cause.
"It is nice that the Capital One Cup is so open and that everybody has got a chance," said Dublin, who was speaking on behalf of credit card company Capital One, sponsors of the League Cup.
"All you need to do is put a run together, get the players clicking at the right time and you get your best players performing at the right weekend and anything can happen."
Meanwhile, Hull's interest in Kasper Schmeichel is over after City refused to budge in their insistence that the 26-year-old goalkeeper was not for sale.
A final bid did not come in from the Tigers, but it is understood they did make one final approach to see if City were willing to negotiate.
City refused and insist it is the end of the matter.
Soured relations between the two clubs since Pearson's departure to join City for a second time more than 18 months ago have made any deals between the two clubs incredibly difficult.
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Panorama: Care home hits back
A care home has issued a statement following a BBC Panorama programme, entitled Elderly Care: Condition Critical.
The programme included concerns about the care of Kathleen Reid, who went to The Poplars, Mountsorrel, in 2008
Mrs Reid, 88, suffered from dementia and in 2010 her family said they became increasingly concerned about her.
Her daughter Joyce Zannoni told the BBC: "Every time I went, there was something not quite right. For example, her bed was wet, the floor was wet. Then finding medication in her drawers and in her clothing, so she wasn't having her medication, obviously."
Mrs Reid died 14 days after being moved to hospital, in October 2011.
In a statement, the home said: "In the programme, interviews with Kathleen's daughter and daughter-in-law, as well as a whistleblower, highlighted concerns regarding the nature and quality of the care given to Kathleen during her final months at the Poplars.
"The BBC invited us to take part in the programme but, as it would not give us sufficient details of the proposed content, we were advised to make written representations instead – some of which (but by no means all) were referred to during the programme.
"In October, there will be a full inquest into Kathleen's death.
"In our view it is in that forum, not on TV, where the allegations and evidence in the matter should be explored.
"Although we take issue with the allegations made in the programme and the context in which they were set, in view of the forthcoming inquest we do not think it is appropriate to detail those at this time.
"However, there are some points that we wish to make.
"First, at no point did the whistleblower tell us of the reason for her resignation, which is strange given that in the programme she attributed this to her concerns about the care being provided.
"Many of our current care staff worked at the Poplars during Kathleen's time with us and they find the criticisms unmerited, unfounded and hurtful to them.
"Secondly, it was said on the programme that half of the residents at the Poplars in 2011-12 died and a statistician said that was at the high end of (although not above) the scale.
"In fact, the total number of residents at the Poplars in the year in question was 30.
"There were 10 resident deaths – one third – which is about the mid-point of the scale. This was higher than in previous years, but of the 10 who died five were terminally-ill residents specifically placed in the home for end-of-life care.
"Thirdly, we do report the deaths of all residents.
"In some cases we even report deaths of former residents, which we are not required to do.
"This explains why we reported 11 deaths in 2011-12 rather than the 10 which we were obliged to report."
The statement said a new care manager had been appointed since Mrs Reid's death and that the most recent Care Quality Commission report acknowledged improvements in care. A spokesman for the Panorama programme said: "We stand by our investigation into the death rates of care homes." And he said The Poplars was "properly informed about the findings featured in the programme. "They were invited to comment and their views were represented appropriately."Mum plans to take the MoD to court
The mother of a serviceman killed in Afghanistan will try to take the Ministry of Defence to court in her campaign for better equipment for the armed forces.
Teresa Woods said she would contact lawyers after yesterday's Supreme Court ruling the families of people killed in action could pursue negligence cases against the Government.
The case was brought by relatives of three men killed by roadside bombs while in lightly-armoured Snatch Land Rovers in Iraq, despite years of criticism of the vulnerability of the vehicles.
Mrs Woods's 24-year-old son, Corporal Marcin Wojtak, died when the lightly-armoured Vector vehicle he was commanding – which was supposed to have been withdrawn from frontline service – was blown up in Helmand province.
He was serving with 34 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment.
The tougher Mastiff vehicles demanded by Cpl Wojtak's commanding officer arrived the day after his death, in October 2009.
Supreme Court judges ruled the MoD owes soldiers a duty of care under the law of negligence.
They backed a ruling by the Court of Appeal that the MoD could be liable if it "failed to provide sufficient protection while on active service".
Mrs Woods, 56, of Croxton Kerrial, said: "It is clear to me the MoD was negligent in sending my son out in a Vector vehicle when he was due to go out in a Mastiff.
"If he had been in the Mastiff, the bomb that killed him would have just given him a headache.
"We shall be contacting the law firm Hodge, Jones and Allen to see if we can join a class action against the MoD.
"There are many other mothers out there who now have the opportunity to pursue their cases in the courts.
"Our service personnel have the right to expect to be given the correct equipment."
Jocelyn Cockburn, of Hodge, Jones and Allen, said: "It is clearly in the public interest that the authorities are legally required to consider the safety of soldiers in times of conflict.
"It is right our soldiers should expect to be properly equipped."
After the ruling, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said: "The most important priority is the protection of our troops and since this litigation started, a wide range of protected vehicles including Mastiff, Ridgeback, Husky, Wolfhound, Jackal and Foxhound, have been available to commanders to match the most appropriate available vehicle to specific tasks based on the assessment of the operational risk.
"I welcome the fact the court has upheld the principle of the doctrine of combat immunity, albeit suggesting it should be interpreted narrowly.
"However, I am very concerned at the wider implications of this judgment, which could ultimately make it more difficult for our troops to carry out operations and potentially throws open a wide range of military decisions to the uncertainty of litigation."
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That was summer! Rain to return...
Sun-lovers soaked up the rays in temperatures of up to 26C yesterday, but there was misery for hay fever sufferers as pollen levels soared.
However, the sneezes and streaming eyes may not last long – Mercury weatherman Dave Mutton warned the outlook for the next few weeks was unsettled.
Dave said: "We are going to be in for a prolonged spell of very unsettled weather, although hopefully not a repeat of last year."
The Met Office has said Britain could face a decade of wet summers as we are in a rare cyclical warming of the Atlantic Ocean, which increases the prospect of summer rain and can last for two decades.
Since the cycle began in 2007, six of the seven summers have been wetter than average.
Dave said UK weather patterns were becoming more unusual because of a shift in the jet streams – high level strong winds which move weather systems around the globe.
He said: "The problem is, no-one knows what caused the shift.
"If it has happened before we can at least be assured it is nothing man created.
"It just goes to prove if there's one thing man cannot control, it's the weather."