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Two goals in three second-half minutes completed a remarkable turnaround for Leicester City as they came from behind against Derby to book their place in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup.

City looked to be heading out of the competition after the visitors dominated the first-half and led through Chris Martin's strike.

But Anthony Knockaert hammered home a superb free-kick on 78 minutes before Danny Drinkwater grabbed the winner with nine minutes remaining.

City boss Nigel Pearson made eight changes from the side that drew at Blackpool on Saturday and handed full home debuts to six players.

Poland international defender Marcin Wasilewski made his first appearance after receiving international clearance, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Dean Hammond and Academy product Tom Hopper made their full debuts after previous substitute appearances.

Defenders Zoumana Bakayogo and Ignasi Miquel also made their home debuts.

With so many changes, it was difficult to forecast City's fortunes but they faced a Rams side that only made three changes and had started the season with four wins and a draw from five games away from home.

The visitors certainly looked the more cohesive and confident unit in the first half.

But City almost had a dream start when Hopper had a header from Liam Moore's long throw headed off the line, although that was as good as it got for Pearson's men as the Rams dictated proceedings.

City looked swamped at times in midfield as the Rams produced wave after wave of fluent attacks, and were unlucky to be just the one goal to the good by the break.

The new-look central defensive partnership of Wasilwewski and Miquel was given very little protection as City failed to track runners, and were forced to make several last-ditch tackles, while Kasper Schmeichel made several good saves.

Going forward City failed to offer much of a threat from open play and they only really looked dangerous when Moore had the ball in his hands and was able to launch it into the Rams box, where Miquel produced several dangerous flick-ons.

The youthful strike duo of Hopper and Jeff Schlupp hardly got any service, while Gary Taylor-Fletcher was unable to get into the game at all playing just behind them.

There was no doubting Derby were the better side and they deservedly took the lead in the 42nd minute.

They showed composure around the City box and Johnny Russell teed up Chris Martin, who slipped the ball past Schmeichel from the edge of the area.

Not surprisingly, City made two changes at half-time, bringing on David Nugent to play up front with Taylor-Fletcher, and Lloyd Dyer replaced Bakayogo, so Schlupp moved to left-back.

The changes had an effect as City certainly looked brighter and more threatening, and Taylor-Fletcher teed up Nugent after 51 minutes but he couldn't get enough power on his shot from the edge of the area.

Now, it was City in the ascendency and they began to be much more influential in the midfield area as they had the extra man.

The Rams still looked lively on the break and Russell side-footed Craig Forsyth's low cross just past the post as inevitably City had to commit men forward in search of the equaliser.

City were still needing more cutting edge and it was provided by their third substitute Knockaert. The little Frenchman produced a superb cameo performance and scored a stunning equaliser in the 78th minute when he crashed home a thunderous free-kick off the underside of bar after Conor Sammon had fouled Hammond.

As they have done so often this season, three minutes later they were in front when Knockaert swung in a free-kick and Drinkwater got a slight touch on it, sending it into the far corner.

A senior police officer has taken to the internet to highlight the six most active criminals on his patch and urged the public to help his officers catch them.

Inspector Johnny Monks, commander of policing in Loughborough, Shepshed and Hathern, said the six people were part of the minority who commit the majority of crime in the area.

He posted the video on YouTube yesterday to urge people to pass on information about criminal activity.

In the film, he said: There are six very active criminals at the moment. We know who they are and where they live and we are doing everything we can to disrupt their criminal activity."

He later told the Leicester Mercury: "We have eight people who cause the most harm to the community, through thieving, burglary and dealing. We put two of them away recently, leaving us with the six people I have referred to in my video message.

"Whether they are addicted to drugs, alcohol or both or have other issues, we are telling them help is available for them if they want it.

"These people are not committing crime to buy their next Bentley. They are doing it to fund drug or alcohol habits.

"The point we make to them when we get them in custody is they can end this cycle. I know it is difficult to beat any kind of addiction, but it is up to them to take up these offers of help."

Robbert Van Tienen, a Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator in central Loughborough, said: "It's absolutely true that a very small number of people are responsible for a great amount of crime. I am not sure that people are generally aware of how small the number of people who cause misery is.

"We have a good Neighbourhood Watch network here and people should call the police if they see someone acting suspiciously."

This is the moment Leslie Collins was caught on camera apparently tipping buckets of excrement into a couple's garden.

Long-suffering Michael and Shirley Pollard, who live next door to Collins, set up a video camera to try to catch him throwing containers of filth on to their property.

Mr Pollard hid the camera in a conifer and it recorded a string of incidents of anti-social behaviour.

Collins, 68, was jailed on Monday for two years and 10 months after a decade of making the lives of his fellow residents in Rockland Rise, Whitwick, a misery.

Collins, a carpenter, was prosecuted by the Environment Agency for running a noisy wood recycling business at his home without a proper licence, and despite court orders to stop.

He also admitted twice breaching an anti-social behaviour order by throwing things into the Pollards' garden and damaging their drain pipe.

Mr Pollard told the Leicester Mercury: "When we went out he would do it, so I set the camera up to get evidence.

"I spent £130 on a top-of-the-range camera and another £180 on the recorder.

"It worked, because we caught him at it.

"You can see him setting up a step by the fence, looking over to see the coast is clear then tipping excrement over.

"It happened about once a week. As much excrement as he could produce came over our fence."

Mr Pollard said Collins also attached a saucepan to a pole so he could reach over the fence to tip concrete down the couple's drains.

"We recorded that," said Mr Pollard. "You can see him searching his wood pile and getting out the stick he has bolted a milk pan to.

"He then disappears to mix his concrete, comes back, climbs his ladder, reaches over the fence to the drain and tips it down."

After Collins was jailed on Monday, Mr Pollard said he had expected to get a good night's sleep, but it did not materialise.

He said: "We were really pleased he was in prison but I still only got four hours sleep because everything was whirling about in my head.

"I'm sure we will re-adjust to a normal life but it might take a while.

"At least, if we go out now we won't be coming home worrying about what he has done."

Mr Pollard said his wife, Shirley, had suffered heart trouble in recent years.

"I think the stress of all this has played a part," he said.

Speaking of Collins's custodial sentence, Mr Pollard said: "All the neighbours are very relieved.

"It feels like an elephant has been lifted from my shoulders.

"He will be in prison for half his term – 17 months – then he might come back.

"The police have said if he even takes a small step out of line he will be back in to serve the rest."

The court was told the neighbours had suffered years of machine noise from Collins's wood business, as well as a loud radio at night and verbal abuse.

Collins's solicitor Paul Tubb said his client lived an "isolated and unconventional life" without television or cooker, and was estranged from his son and wife.

Mr Pollard said: "It has been horrible living next to him.

"It is sad that a man approaching 70 has driven everyone away from him through his behaviour."

A 75-year-old benefits cheat who claimed £76,000 she was not entitled to has been spared jail because of her age.

Evelyn Hickman wept with relief in the dock at Leicester Crown Court after hearing she was not going to be immediately locked up.

Judge Michael Pert QC said: "I'm not going to send a 75-year-old woman to prison for 20 months.

"It's your age – and age alone – that justifies suspending the sentence.

"You committed a large number of offences of cheating the housing benefits system over a 12-year period, in a scheme that was dishonest from the outset.

"You had many opportunities to change your ways and instead you took many opportunities to perpetrate the frauds that cost the rest of us more than £75,000."

The 20-month prison sentence was suspended for two years.

Hickman was ordered to pay £1,500 court costs.

Hickman, of Hungarton Avenue, Syston, admitted 12 counts of housing benefit fraud from 1999.

Kate Rogers, prosecuting, said the defendant claimed £46,748 in housing benefits in relation her home address, falsely claiming it was rented accommodation and failing to tell the authorities she and her husband jointly owned it outright.

In another fraud, she obtained £29,340 housing benefits, by falsely declaring her grandson was a tenant in a property in Stanier Drive, Rushey Mead, Leicester, that was owned by her husband – when the grandson owned it.

The defendant and her husband bought the Stanier Drive property in 2009, which they still own.

Miss Rogers said: "In interview, she admitted it was fraudulent from the outset, saying her husband couldn't read or write and she sometimes forged his signature."

Dominic Thomas, mitigating, said Hickman was repaying the money at £200 a month.

He said the defendant was the primary carer for her grandson, who has mental health difficulties, and relied upon her.

Friends and family have paid tribute to "happy and smiling" Victoria Clarke-Manchester, who died on Sunday.

The 28-year-old, known to her friends as Vicky, was found dead in her Syston home by her mum, Shirley Manchester.

Yesterday, mourners laid flowers outside the flat where she lived with her mum, in The Stiles, near Oxford Street.

On one bouquet, a tribute read: "Such a dear friend taken too soon but such a precious angel you will be.

"Going to miss you each and every day, will never forget our memories and good old laughs. Rest in peace, sweetheart."

People who knew Vicky also took to Facebook and Twitter to express their sadness.

Amy Padmore posted on Facebook: "RIP Vicky Manchester, you will be sadly missed by all. You were a happy little soul. I will miss seeing your happy, smiling face."

Twitter user, @lestalad8723, posted: "Such sad news. Will be sadly missed by lots of people. Rip Vicky."

Louise Taylor is owner of Syston Sandwich Bar, from where Vicky used to buy a sausage cob before work.

She told the Mercury: "Vicky was a lovely person. She was a real character – always up for a laugh and never failed to cheer you up. She would do anything to help anybody."

Police were called to the incident at 2.48pm on Sunday.

They are not treating her death as suspicious.

A pensioner told a jury how he was knocked over by two robbers who then kicked him in the head and face.

The 71-year-old was left battered and bleeding by the attackers, who fled with his wallet. He realised later he had also been struck with a bottle.

Giving evidence at Leicester Crown Court, the pensioner said he was walking along Broom Leys Road, Coalville, at about midnight on March 29 when the incident happened.

"I was knocked to the floor when someone pushed me from behind," he said.

"I hit my head on the ground. I was being kicked in the face and someone was kicking me in the back.

"After being knocked about, one put their hand in my back pocket and took my wallet.

"I was in a very bad way, with a wound to the top of my forehead and couldn't see out of my eyes for blood."

He went home, called the police and was taken to hospital for treatment to cuts to his head, face and arms.

Defendant Richard Smith (22), formerly of Spring Cottage Road, Overseal, near Swadlincote, now of Hall Street, Birmingham, denies taking part in the robbery.

In a police interview, he claimed to be the peacemaker who stopped the mugging.

He said he had been drinking heavily with another male and both began making their way home.

Smith told officers at some stage he had ended up ahead of his associate and, when he looked back, saw him down the road assaulting someone on the floor.

He told the police he told his companion to get away.

The attack stopped, they both left and Smith played no part in the incident, he claimed.

Jonathan Taylor, prosecuting, told the jury: "You will have to decide whether that is, or may be, true."

Mr Taylor said the victim described "being assaulted by two, not one".

"He says one person removed his wallet while he was being assaulted by the other," said Mr Taylor.

Smith told the police he was unaware the man on the ground was an elderly person.

The jury was told the defendant's associate pleaded guilty to the robbery and accepted having a bottle, at an earlier hearing.

Mr Taylor said the question for the jury was whether or not Smith was also involved.

The trial continues.

A man is waiting for a written apology – four months after a hospital sent a letter to his dead father.

To make matters worse, the letter contained congratulations on a new pregnancy and an invitation to make an ante- natal appointment.

Graham Stretton, from Glenfield, said he was constantly being "fobbed off" by officials at the Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

His father, Dennis, who lived at the same address, was 83 when he died in February.

Mr Stretton, 54, said: "Three months after he died a letter arrived from the trust's maternity unit in Lichfield.

"It congratulated him on the forthcoming birth and invited him to book an ante-natal appointment.

"His name and hospital number on the letter were both correct but no-one seemed to have checked to see if the letter was being sent to a male or female. My sister and I found it very upsetting to receive a letter in this way.

"My father had been a patient for a short time at the Queen's Hospital, in Burton, and if he had been alive I think he would have found it quite amusing to receive this letter. But, three months after he died, we found it rather distressing.

"Someone must have generated the letter, printed it out and put it in an envelope and yet no-one seems to have questioned that it was being sent to a man, not a woman, let alone if they were alive."

Mr Stretton said that despite repeated attempts to contact the trust for an explanation and apology he kept being "fobbed off".

He said: "I have rung the hospital about three times only to be told the person dealing with complaint wasn't there.

"I can never get hold of anyone in authority and each person just seems to dismiss the effect on me.

"Since I contacted the Mercury I have had a letter to say procedures have been changed at the hospital, but still no written apology."

Helen Ashley, trust chief executive said: "I am extremely sorry Mr Stretton received a letter addressed to his father and for any distress this caused to him and his family.

"There is an ongoing investigation into this complaint and we will be in contact with Mr Stretton in due course, as it would appear this was an administrative error.

"I would like to reassure our patients that all complaints are taken seriously and investigated thoroughly.

"If patients do have any issues with the care we provide I would encourage them to contact our Patient Advice Service to ensure that lessons are learned so we can continue to improve the experience provided to our patients."

1. Kasper Schmeichel: The skipper kept the Rams at bay in the first half with a string of good saves, but could do nothing about Chris Martin's strike. Rating 6/10

18. Liam Moore: Looked equally as comfortable at right-back as he does at centre back. A solid display and his long throws were always a threat. Rating 7/10

27. Marcin Wasilewski: Looked rusty on his first game of the season but produced some well-timed tackles and cool distribution. A really promising debut. Rating 6/10

23. Ignasi Miquel: Kept his cool as the Rams piled forward in the first half and produced some well-timed challenges.Rating 6/10

21. Zoumana Bakayogo: Had a torrid first half and was withdrawn. Gave the ball away too often in dangerous areas and was given a run around by Johnny Russell.Rating 4/10

4. Danny Drinkwater: After a difficult first half in which City were over-ran in midfield, Drinkwater came to life in the second and got a decisive touch for City's second goal. Rating 7/10

7. Dean Hammond: His first start and while he looked rusty in possession, he certainly showed he is fully committed with some strong tackles.An encouraging display.Rating 7/10

8. Matty James: Was chasing shadows at times in the first period but was much more comfortable in the second period and his set-piece delivery was good. Rating 6/10

22. Gary Taylor-Fletcher: Looked off the pace on his full debut. He wasn't in the game in the first period but looked better alongside David Nugent in the second. Rating 5/10

20. Tom Hopper: Was given hardly any service in the first half. A little unfortunate to be sacrificed at half-time as City sought to change the momentum of the game. Rating 5/10

15. Jeff Schlupp: Should have been City's outlet in the first half with his pace but they didn't have enough possession to bring him into the game. Moved to left-back at half-time. Rating 6/10RELATED CONTENT• Leicester 2 Derby 1: Pearson pleased with place in fourth round • Leicester 2 Derby 1: Two late goals see City through - match report • Leicester 2 Derby 1: Rob Tanner's match verdict• Pictures: Leicester City 2 Derby County 1