内容摘要：“We are committed to further improving the water quality in Lake Windermere and are working closely with several organisations as part of the Love Windermere Partnership to do so.

“We are committed to further improving the water quality in Lake Windermere and are working closely with several organisations as part of the Love Windermere Partnership to do so.

"To put it bluntly, the NHS cannot afford for the hospices to continue to reduce their services, because where else are these people going to go?"Loros, which provides end of life care in patients' homes as well as at its base near Glenfield Hospital, costs £932 an hour to run and needs to raise £9m every year to cover its costs.

It receives only about 20% of its funding from the public purse.Rising costs including higher utility bills, coupled with a reduction in donations from legacies, have left the organisation with a £1.5m funding gap.It has been forced to announce plans to restructure its services, which include consulting a number of staff on the future of their jobs.

In his annual fundraising letter, which was sent to supporters of the charity since the consultation over jobs started, chief executive Rob Parkinson warned hospices "simply won't be able to care for every patient" without ongoing support.Speaking to BBC Radio Leicester, he said: "We are doing everything we can to try to bring costs down in a way that has as little impact on patients as possible.

"But it will still have an impact and there will inevitably be some reduction in what we do."

He added: "Over the next 20 or so years, we are going to see a large increase in the demand for end of life care and we need to prepare for that, not just at Loros, but as a community."The only exceptions to this have been countries where elections were seen as neither free nor fair, such as Chad and Rwanda, or in which governments were accused by opposition and rights groups of resorting to a combination of rigging and repression to avert defeat, as in Mozambique.

Three trends have combined to make it a particularly difficult year to be in power.In Botswana, Mauritius and Senegal, growing citizen concern about corruption and the abuse of power eroded government credibility.

Opposition leaders were then able to play on popular anger at nepotism, economic mismanagement and the failure of leaders to uphold the rule of law to expand their support base.Especially in Mauritius and Senegal, the party in power also undermined its claim to be a government committed to respecting political rights and civil liberties - a dangerous misstep in countries where the vast majority of citizens are committed to democracy, and which have previously seen opposition victories.