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Tests are ordered on all processed beef products after some offenders

lasagnes are found to contain 100% horsemeat. The Food Standards

Agency says criminal activity is likely to be behind the

contamination. We need to get to the bottom of this fast and we need

to make sure that weather has been what appears to be criminality is

investigated and we have prosecutions. Up all night and the

talks will go on as the EU tries towards edge towards a budget deal

for the next seven years. A jury hears a false and 999 call

which lured two police women to their deaths.

Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of disgraced MP Chris Huhne it tells

the court she felt ashamed and exposed after an article about her

accepting his speeding points was published in the Sunday Times.

Three people shot dead and a manhunt is launched in LA after an

ex-police officer shot three people. And England's women cricketers take

it down to the wire against Australia against -- N Mumbai.

On BBC London: Could this man hold the clue to London's only unsolved

Child murder case. Add a convicted drug smuggler wins a legal be -- a

bit have not to serve his sentence in prison because of his

Hello, the Food Standards Agency has ordered all companies to test

their beef products after some packets of Findus beef lasagne were

found to contain up to 100% horsemeat. The agency says the

current situation is appalling, but insists there is no immediate

health risk. Police in Britain and abroad are investigating. Tesco and

Aldi have already withdrawn a range of ready meals produced by the same

French supplier. Findus tested 18 packs of lasagne

and found not beef, but horsemeat in 11. The effective tax are the

320, 360 and 500 gram meals. All have been taken off supermarket

shelves. The company is offering refunds. It is thought they were

not produced at the plant in Newcastle, but by a French supplier

Comigel. The Food Standards Agency has now given companies a week to

test all their products for horsemeat and for a drug name to

bute. It is extremely serious and people have every expectation that

when they buy a product in the shop it is what it says on the label.

That is why we need to get to the bottom of this fast and we need to

make sure that weather has been criminality it is investigated and

we have prosecutions. Last month, inspectors found horsemeat in some

burgers stopped by UK supermarkets including Lidl, Iceland and Tesco.

That was traced to a supplier in Ireland. This new contamination is

a different type of food and from a different country. The FSA says it

thinks both cases, first the burgers and now lasagne, work

either caused by gross negligence or deliberate criminal action and

for that reason they have alerted the police in the UK and in Europe.

This has become a multiple scandal with multiple facets and it is very

concerning for consumers. People have got to know what they are

eating. The Government sets the law and the legal framework and that

has failed and what are ministers going to do about it? With 28 local

authorities set to conduct tests, Downing Street has not been able to

look at the possibility that horsemeat is being served in

schools and hospitals. Political opponents say the Government needs

to act quickly to help consumers decide what they can and cannot eat.

The meat in the Findus lasagne has been traced to France. Christian

Fraser is in Paris. What do we know about where this came from? It has

come from a company called Comigel who have a processing plant in

Luxembourg. They put together process meals for many supermarket

chains in Europe. They put out a statement on Wednesday evening

saying there was a labelling issue with their products, but they have

not been available for comment, despite phone calls from us. What

we do not know is how the horsemeat came into the beef chain. Was there

a confusion in the plant, because of French people eat horsemeat, or

was it that they were caught out by a third-party supplier. We have had

a statement from the Ministry of Agriculture who say this is an

issue of fraud rather than food safety and in this case there was a

lack of transparency which will be investigated. That investigation

will focus on two things. First the provenance and secondly on the

testing routine. Was it rigorous enough? This might not be just of

Britain's problem because they supply to their European and

eastern European companies. I am joined by Our science reporter. A

lot of people do not like the idea of eating horsemeat, but are there

any potential risks? It is as safe as beef and has been eaten in many

countries for many years. The problem they are concerned about is

a drug called phenylbutazone. It is a powerful painkiller, and was

withdrawn from humans because it was toxic. Those who supply

requires meat for human consumption are not supposed to use it. The

worry is that this can get confused. A few years ago the vexed tested

horses here that work due for export and they found cases of

phenylbutazone here. But it is something that is being taken

seriously. There is a question and answer section on the BBC News

website about the tests that her being done on the meat that is

suspected of contamination. They have been up all night, locked

in negotiations and the talks are still going to continue, but

European leaders are thought to be close to a deal for setting the EU

budget for the next seven years. Britain and the Netherlands are

amongst the countries pushing for a cut. Some other members, including

France, say cuts would prevent the creation of new jobs.

They returned to battle after a few hours of rest. These are complex

negotiations and they have not slept all night as they fought it

out. Her close do you feel you are? The proposal on the table is likely

to be accepted. If it is, overall spending by the European Union will

go down. And that is going down well in Westminster, but whatever

deal is agreed, it is likely London will still send more money to

Brussels year on year, as the EU expands. If they can stick to this

proposal, then for David Cameron and the other leaders who have been

calling for constraints in spending will be able to declare a victory.

Yet, for the Prime Minister and some of those other leaders who

have wanted the EU budget to be refocused there will be

disappointment because this is not a new, more modern, more relevant

and growth orientated spending plan. Barring a few exceptions, that

simply has not happened. To be fair, if the proposals states, there will

be less for the same all suspects. But agriculture will continue to

receive about one third of the total and spending on developing

Europe's poorer countries, were also down, is still a huge part of

the Budget. There is more money to create that modern European economy,

less than expected, though, and not much to create jobs for the young

unemployed. It still dominates Agricultural Policy as in the past.

Where they are cutting is in growth generated expenditure, in research

and innovation and infrastructure. The deal is not done yet and

everyone is dozing whenever they can, waiting for news.

Our political correspondent is in Brussels. They are all clearly

exhausted and now there is another delay. Yes, yet another delay.

After a long night, they are having a rather long lunch. Officials say

it is for technical reasons, the shape of the deal that is emerging

is not under threat. Some countries may be fighting back a little bit.

What the Prime Minister is hoping for a is the ability to go from

Brussels and back to Britain and say, I came to get a real-terms cut

in the EU budget, that is what might MPs wanted, and that is what

I have achieved. But there is one important correction, that is

although our payments into the European Union are likely to go

down, at the amount we get back out could go up. We could end up paying

more or and whatever is agreed in Brussels, the European Parliament

has to approve it and the leader of the European Parliament has been

pretty critical and he has called it a con trick and he made vetoed

it. A jury has been played a bogus 999 call allegedly made by Dale

Cregan which are lured two police women to their deaths in Manchester

last September. The court has been told he made the call as part of a

carefully laid plan to lure them to the house where he lay in wait. He

then fired 32 bullets at PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes. He

denies the murder. Yes and the court heard today that

Dale Cregan had carefully planned the murders of PC Fiona Bone and PC

Nicholas Hughes. He had gone to the house where they died the night

before and in a relaxed mood had sent out for beer, cigars and

cigarettes. The police -- prosecution said he knew that was

to be his last night of freedom. Dale Cregan and his co-defendants

arrived for the second day of their trial and midst high-security again.

The court, which is surrounded by armed officers, heard detail for

the first time of how two police Constable's were murdered. PC Fiona

Bone and PC Nicholas Hughes had been sent to respond to a reported

burglary at a house in Mottram in Greater Manchester. Dale Cregan had

lured them there. He had called 999 under a false name and reported an

attempted break-in. His carefully laid plan, it was said, had been

successful. He had lured two unarmed officers to his door and he

was armed, ready and waiting for them. As the women arrived, he

opened the front door and immediately fired his Glock pistols.

The families were in court and they wept as the jury was told that Dale

Cregan had fired up 32 shots at the women in just a few seconds. Then

the prosecution said he had left his usual calling-card, throwing a

military grenade at them, before fleeing the scene. Dale Cregan

listened in the dock as it was revealed he had driven himself

straight to the police station. When he got there he said that he

had come to hand himself in, adding, I am wanted by the police and I

have just done two coppers. Dale Cregan also apparently told the

police he was sorry about those who had been killed and he wished it

had been men. The prosecution concluded by saying, we suggest to

the jury that he will surely conclude that all phases of these

murderous attacks were carried out by a man who knew exactly what he

was doing with a clarity of mind and with also chilling

premeditation. The jury have been sent home and asked to return on

Monday when the first witnesses are expected to appear.

Two hit men who went to the wrong address and stabbed an innocent

teenager to death by mistake have been told they are likely to spend

the rest of their lives in jail. Seventeen-year-old Aamir Siddiqi

was killed in the doorway of his card at home in front of his

parents. Ben Hope and Jason what chance had been paid to murder a

man in the next street. The judge jailed them for a minimum of 40

years. The Duchess of York is among a

group of people who have reached a settlement at the High Court over

claims their telephones were tapped. The Senedd James Blunt and the

actor Christopher Eccleston are some of the others who have reached

settlements. Tens of thousands of mourners are

attending the funeral in Tunisia of the assassinated opposition leader

Chokri Balayeed. The capital Tunis has been shut down by a general

strike, the Army is on standby in case of demonstrators.

The ex-wife of the disgraced MP Chris Huhne has told the jury she

felt ashamed and upset about talking to the Sunday Times about

an article after -- after an article about Chris Huhne's

Ms Pryce said she was shocked and horrified, she said she did not

want to turn back the clock. There has been interesting evidence, the

prosecutor of was cross examining Ms Pryce about her story yesterday

it into the witness box where she said when she signed the

Documentation taking on the points, he was forcing her to do it. The

prosecution said, because her defence was marital conversion, it

required the husband to be present when the conversion happened, that

she had been advised to say that to back up her defence. She responded

her account was absolutely true. $:/STARTFEED. Police in California

have launched a huge manhunt for a former police officer who's

suspected of killing three people, including a colleague. Christopher

Dorner, who'd been sacked from the force, is said to have posted

threats online. Protection teams are guarding 40 individuals who are

believed to be targets. Mike Wooldridge has the latest.

A massive manhunt across three states for a heavily armed ex-cop

accused of killing three and hunting for more. The focus of the

man hunt for Christopher Dorner is now 80 miles east of Los Angeles,

where police found his burnt out Pickup truck. With a degree in

political science, he served in the US Navy before joining an been

fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. Police say they are

protecting 40 possible targets from Christopher Dorner who issued this

chilling message on line. The course he knows what he is

doing, we trained him. He was also a member of the armed forces. It is

an extremely worrisome and scary is there and, especially for the

police officers involved. Last Sunday, two people were killed, one,

the daughter of a retired police officer Christopher Dorner blames

for his sacking. Also, an attack on Wednesday where a police officer

was killed and another injured. is a scary situation. Who is next?

You do not know. This will end very badly for him. I do not see a

peaceful ending. Police are guarding potential targets, and

shot and wounded two Women in a case of mistaken identity. This is

thought to be the biggest manhunt in southern California as police

tried to track down a man who was once one of their own.

Our top story this lunchtime. Tests have been ordered on all

processed beef products, after some Findus lasagnes were found to

contain up to 100% horsemeat. Coming up: Battle at the Bolshoi

Ballet. One of its star dancers says he's the victim of a

"Stalinist witch-hunt" by the On BBC London: 2012 organisers

admit losing billions staging Nearly 50,000 people in Britain

have signed an online petition, urging the government to give more

support to the hundreds of Syrian students studying here. The

conflict in Syria, as well as international sanctions, has meant

that many have been unable to access their money, and are now

struggling to make ends meet. Michael Buchanan reports.

This garage provides one Syrian student with a lifeline. Cheap

toiletries sold at car boot sales each weekend to make money. He

hasn't received any money from Syria in ones and his university

has refused to give him any aid. They couldn't give any support, any

hardship. He recommended me to go to the mosque and ask for support.

Brunel University has the largest group of Sirin students in the UK.

It is accused of failing to so -- to provide support for those in

need. Universities are being given no clear steer by the government.

Each university has been left to interpret it this how they like.

Some students say they are being treated badly, expelled even, while

others are receiving help. The conflict in Syria has led to the

government there failing to pay student fees, with sanctions making

it difficult to get money out of their country, meaning financial

problems for students and UK universities as well. Some

universities have large numbers of students, up to 50. The ability of

the university to respond is different to where the university

has just one student from Syria. a cafe at Edinburgh University,

this student is grateful for all the support they have given him. He

has needed after he says spending 48 days in a detention centre in

its area having posted some anti- regime comments on line. I remember

lashes with braided cable on my back, and a lecture fide stick.

When I looked at my legs and toes, each was the size of an aubergine.

The fear for some Sirin students in the UK is they will suffer a

similar fate if financial problems forced them to return home. The

number of people who die from paracetamol overdoses has fallen

dramatically in England and Wales, since pharmaceutical companies were

forced to make pack sizes smaller. Figures up to 2009, published in

the British Medical Journal, suggest that around 70 lives a year

are being saved. Here's our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh.

Paracetamol overdose is the most common cause of self-poisoning in

the UK, and can result in serious liver damage and death. Since 1998,

packs of paracetamol have been restricted to 32 tablets in

pharmacies, and 16 tablets in other shops. Although the number of

paracetamol overdoses has not declined, there's been a 43%

reduction in deaths involving the drug, representing an estimated 765

lives saved in England and Wales in the 11 years following the

legislation. The study also found a 61% reduction in patient

registrations for liver transplantation, as a result of

paracetamol damage. I think this is an extremely encouraging sign and

shows the combination of legislation changed and greater

awareness of the dangers of paracetamol are really having an

effect. We need to see this as the start of a much more positive

approach to really tackling the overall level of suicide in this

country. Although one factor in the decline in deaths could be improved

treatment following an overdose, the restriction in pack sizes

appears to have had the desired effect of limiting the number of

tablets which people can acquire when acting impulsively. But

researchers say there is no room for complacency. There are still

120 deaths from paracetamol, so we need to consider the amount of

paracetamol in each tablet. One of the biggest stars of

Russia's Bolshoi Ballet has accused the management of trying to ruin

his reputation in a "Stalinist witch-hunt". It's the latest in a

series of scandals to hit the world-famous ballet company. Last

month, its artistic director was seriously injured in an acid attack.

Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow. At the Bolshoi this week, they've

put on Giselle. It's a story of jealousy, treachery, revenge. But

that's nothing compared to the dramas backstage. Nikolai

Tsiskaridze is a principal dancer, and currently one of the Bolshoi's

biggest stars. He has clashed before with his bosses. Now, he

says, the Bolshoi management wants him out.

TRANSLATION: It's like being back in the days of Joseph Stalin. They

are organising meetings against me, they are trying to force staff to

sign a letter to condemn me. They tried that last week. But the

ballet teachers have tried refused to sign it. Three weeks ago, the

troop's artistic director Sergei Filin was attacked with sulphuric

acid. The head of the Bolshoi has accused Nikolai Tsiskaridze of

creating an atmosphere of mud- slinging and mayhem which he

believes led to the incident. Nikolai Tsiskaridze denies it, and

even questions what happened. TRANSLATION: God forbid if it was

acid, you wouldn't be able to show yourself for months. I don't know

what a substance was, but it is clear it isn't what it was claimed.

If you look at the specially commissioned TV shows hinting at my

involvement, it looks like a campaign against me. This isn't

against Sergei Filin, it is against me. But they won't get away with it.

I am speechless. I really don't care what Nikolai thinks about it,

I just hope Sergei will be healed as quick as possible, and his

eyesight and face, and he will join us, and the Bolshoi will continue

to work. The Bolshoi would clearly love the

focus to switch back to its ballet, but the very public row which has

broken out between one of its biggest stars and management

suggests, for now, the drama offstage will stake in the

spotlight. -- will stay.

Steve Rosenberg is outside the Bolshoi Theatre. An extraordinary

story and extraordinary drama. You have to wonder what twists and

turns lie ahead. The E E war of words is certainly growing

increasingly bitter. On the one hand, the star dancer pointing an

accusing finger at his bosses, accusing the manager of the Bolshoi

Ballet of exploiting the acid attack to drive him from the

Bolshoi Ballet. And the management pointing the finger at Nikolai

Tsiskaridze, accusing him of mud- slinging and intrigue. We learned

that the Bolshoi Ballet is considering legal action against

Nikolai Tsiskaridze for the comments he has made.

There's been disappointment for England's women cricketers in the

World Cup in India. The defending champions needed 148 to win against

Australia, but fell two runs short of their total. It means England

now face an uphill task if they're to progress to the final. Our

sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports from Mumbai.

On India's western edge, a Mumbai morning. 20 million people with

their daily routines. Exercise can be social for some, but not if

you're playing in a cricket classic confrontation. England are defended

jabbers but staying at the top is tough. There are emerging Bajans

likes her Lanka for targeting better. Playing Australia is still

the ultimate challenge. England won the toss and chose to bowl first.

They took five wickets in the first half. Anya Shrubsole is in the form

of her life. She was unstoppable. Australia reached a respectable

total, but once this pair fell, they were all out. A small total

which soon looked madness, England soon folded. Most of the batters

could only blame themselves. Now, England were in the grip of a panic.

England were six down, the school was just 39. Even the skipper of

sense that the game was up. Lydia Greenway applied herself, but on 49,

she fell. Anya Shrubsole was last in with England needing 34.

Suddenly, England were just two behind. Court, or out, all over.

Now it's time for the weather.. And some rather miserable weather.

Indeed so, to come. The afternoon is not too bad at all.

It will stay pretty cold, I am afraid. Bear in mind this cloud,

this is Sunday's weather. In the interim, two band of cloud across

the British Isles. Towards the West, this is robbing the western side of

Scotland and Northern Ireland of sunshine for a good part of the

afternoon, producing rain. Some wintry weather. I am hopeful

Northern Ireland will pick up before close of play today. In the

east, some wintry weather from the north Sea. If you're not tied up

with those whether France, there is some sunshine. The easterly feature

moves away, and if these guys clear, we may see some ice. To the West,

underneath that blanket, temperatures hold up to five

degrees. Then, the first part of the weekend. There is some sunshine

towards the east with the chance of some ice. On the leading edge of

this weather front, then maybe some conversion of rain to snow. Only

amounting to two centimetres. We have a battle, as we have had,

between cold air from the Continent, and milder air. On Sunday, there

will be a significant of conversion of rain, it into snow. Certainly

into the Midlands, Wales, eastern Scotland. 10 centimetres for some.

You can see how cold things stay. Into the first part of Monday, it

begins to please. If you follow the isobars, there is still significant

snow showers. Monday morning could Findus has issued an apology for