08/02/2013 BBC News at Six

The horsemeat scandal - demands for a criminal investigation, and meat

suppliers and retailers are called for a Government summit tomorrow.

Findus apologises after some of its beef lasagnes are found to consist

entirely of horsemeat. People will be very angry to find they have

been eating horse when they thought they were eating beef, so this does

need to be dealt with. So how confident can we be that the

meat we buy is what it claims to Also tonight:

Europe agrees a new budget. David Cameron hails it as the EU's first

spending cut. How Dale Cregan lured two police

officers to his home to kill them, firing over 30 bullets and then

detonating a grenade. Vicky Pryce, ex-wife of disgraced

MP Chris Huhne, tells a court she felt manipulated by a newspaper.

And England's women struggle to defend their cricket World Cup

In Sportsday, a round-up of all the news, as England's women lose to

Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The Food Standards Agency is demanding a police investigation,

and heads of meat suppliers and retailers have been called for a

Government summit tomorrow. It follows the latest discovery of

horsemeat hidden in products claiming to contain beef. This time

some Findus frozen beef lasagnes were found to contain no beef at

all, just horsemeat. The FSA says it suspects criminality is to blame.

Emma Simpson has more. Findus describes itself as one of

Britain's best-loved names in food, using only the best ingredients,

but some of these meals may not have had any beef at all, just

horsemeat. For Alfie in Bury St Edmunds, beef lasagne was a teatime

favourite. Not any more. Like others, he is worried he may have

eaten something he did not bank on. We have been eating them for years.

Findus is the only ones we normally buy, because of the quality of the

product. REPORTER: Will you be eating any

more? Not any more. This is the French factory where the meals were

made and the horsemeat was found. Today, it said it had identified

the supplier who sold it the meat. Police are here and in the UK are

now involved. The Food Standards Agency suspect gross negligence or

foul play somewhere in the supply chain. Investigations have not

identified any food safety risks so far but what we have seen as

unacceptable. That is why we are demanding the industry tests all of

its beef products, as well as us independently testing them.

tests on Findus frozen beef lasagne left no doubt - some contained

levels of horsemeat between 60-100%. They were made by Comigel, based in

France. This company also supplies some froze and own-brand meals to

Tesco and Aldi. Both have withdrawn the products as a precautionary

measure. The Prime Minister said he understood people's concerns.

is not really about food safety but about effective food labelling,

proper retail practice. And people will be very angry to find out they

have been eating horse when they thought they were eating beef. So

this does need to be dealt with. Labour says his Government should

be doing more. This scandal is tainting consumer confidence.

Criminal elements have come in and the Government seems to be

absolutely frozen at the wheel, unable to take any form of action.

As for Findus, they were still not talking today but on their website

there was an apology to customers. They say they are acting to ensure

such an incident can never happen again. This scandal is not just

damaging for Findus. Consumer confidence in the food industry has

also been dented. It has now been given a week to run sample tests on

all processed beef products. The question is, will it help to

restore trust on our high streets, or reveal a more widespread

problem? The discovery of horsemeat being

sold as beef has raised questions about how much of it is out there,

and whether the system of testing meat is up to the task. Chris

Buckler has been looking at how the content of our food is scrutinised

between the farm and the fork. There has never been a market for

horsemeat in the UK, but beef is big business, and there are strict

rules to try to ensure it is traceable. Cattle within the UK are

given a tag on their ear. Each one contains a unique number. When we

have registered them, they send us a passport. Every animal has a

unique passport. These safeguards are for cattle, but something is

clearly going wrong if horse is ending up in products branded as

beef. Some farmers believe retailers are partly responsible.

It has to be the supermarket because they are pushing the

processor to produce a cheap product. The process of then has to

go and buy cheap meat. It is not easy to buy cheap meat in the UK

because of the fact that we are heavily regulated. In general,

British consumers have always seen a big difference between eating

beef and horsemeat. At the heart of the scandal is not health scare,

but questions of taste and culture. However, there could be serious

implications for processors and suppliers as consumers start to

question if the systems in place can really trace meat from farms to

their forks. They have to trust each other that basically they are

doing what they say they are doing. That is the way the system works.

Sometimes it breaks down and we need to pay more attention to

sharpening up some of the edges on that. It was BSE even change the

industry in the 1990s. Animals were destroyed because of the dangers

they have brought a that human food chain. That is why tighter

regulations were put in place but has this discovery exposed

failings? We think this is a serious fraud in one part of a

complicated food chain. This is not the fault of British farmers.

not just cattle taken to abattoirs in the UK. Horses are, too, but the

meat tends to be processed and eaten abroad. The concern is how

people ended up buying it in towns and villages here.

Emma Simpson joins me. More details have emerged about what Findus new,

and when, about its contaminated products. There has been a

development this afternoon, because we have learned that Findus

actually had confirmation of horsemeat contamination on 29th

January, when it tested only three lasagne meals. This was in the wake

of the burger alert in Ireland. It was doing it as a precautionary

measure. It stopped taking meals from the French factory and stopped

sending out the products, effectively quarantined in the

products as it conducted a wider scale DNA testing to establish what

it was dealing with. Those tests came back positive on Wednesday. So

Findus are saying they have been directed throughout, but one major

retail I spoke to this evening said perhaps they should have known

about the warnings earlier. So this story is far from over.

David Cameron has hailed a deal on the budget for the European Union

as something the British public can be proud of. After a day and night

of tough negotiations in Brussels, EU leaders agreed on a budget of

more than 900 billion euros over the next seven years. The Prime

Minister said this meant spending would be cut for the first time in

the history of the European Union. From Brussels, Nick Robinson

reports. It is the deal that he was told

could not be achieved, a deal to cut the EU's budget. Aid deal for

an age of austerity in which the Prime Minister ditched his limo in

favour of an early morning stroll back to the negotiating table after

a long, long night without sleep. REPORTER: Prime Minister, you have

one. At the end of another whole day of

talking, David Cameron was proclaimed the winner. The British

public can be proud we have cut the seven-year credit card limit for

the European Union for the first time ever. Every previous time

these deals have been agreed, spending has gone up. Not this time.

Brussels awoke this morning to the news that inside the EU summit, few

had been to bed. Journalists and politicians had spent the hours of

darkness waiting to see who would blink first in the game of Euro-

budget poker. This has been a battle between the French President

on the one hand and the British Prime Minister, a battle about how

much money Europe needs, and who should get it. The French media

declared their President the loser. They said he had been abandoned by

the German Chancellor. Francois Hollande put on a brave face.

TRANSLATION: If you ask me, if this had been my dream budget, well, if

it had been up to me, know. Today's talks settled how much the European

Union can spend up until the year 2020. The budget for the last seven

years set a ceiling on EU payments of 943 billion euros. The new

budget ceiling is 35 billion Lola, 908 billion, a cut of more than 3%.

Britain's leading critic of the EU says that even this deal leaves the

country paying more than it should. He has done as well as he could do,

given the nature of the negotiations. But 40% of the money

will continue to go to billionaires and rich landowners. Nothing has

been done to sort out fraud in the Budget, and the taxpayer is still

getting a rotten deal. �50 million a day is a price too far. The deal

done behind these windows will still see Britain's annual payments

to the EU going up, albeit less than they might have done. What do

you say to a British taxpayer to says, I do not care what Europe's

total budget is, but I care that Britain is spending more and more

in Europe? Because of changes to our rebate in 2005, changes that

Tony Blair made and I opposed at the time, our net contributions

were always going to go up there. Prime Minister, are you happy?

David Cameron has experience isolation in Europe. Today, he had

allies and he got a deal. It is clear which he prefers.

Gavin Rae Hewitt is in Brussels. David Cameron is claiming this is a

good deal. Just how good is it, in your assessment. Well, an important

marker was put down today. EU budgets do not always rise, they

can come down. But was it a modern, reforming Budget? Not really. It

remains the case that the biggest item in the Budget is aka --

agricultural spending. The common agricultural policy, although it is

coming down. And a big hurdle lies ahead. This Budget has to be agreed

by the European Parliament and already there are plenty of MPs

threatening to block it on the grounds that they do not like

seeing smaller budgets. And there are some who are asking for a

secret ballot so they are not influenced by national governments,

something David Cameron has already condemned. But politically, do not

underestimate the significance that on such a big issue, the German

Chancellor, Angela Merkel, sided with the British position over the

French. Two men who stabbed to death an

innocent student, after they were paid to carry out a killing but

targeted the wrong house, have each been jailed for a minimum of 40

years. 17-year-old Aamir Siddiqi was murdered on the doorstep of his

Cardiff home in front of his parents in April 2010. Jason

Richards and Ben Hope were told by the judge at Swansea Crown Court

that "few would shed a tear if they died in jail".

A court has heard how the man accused of killing two police

officers in Greater Manchester last September lured them to his house

and started firing at them as soon as he opened the front door. Dale

Cregan fired over 30 bullets at PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone. He

then detonated a military grenade before fleeing the house. He denies

killing both police officers. Judith Moritz was in court.

Harrowing evidence for the families of the two officers today. Yes,

Fiona. The court heard that Dale Cregan had laid a very careful plan

to attract those officers to this house in east Manchester. He

dialled 999 to report a break-in under a false name and was told

that officers would come here quickly, to which he replied,

apparently, I will be waiting. Dale Cregan and his co-defendants

arrived for the second day of their trial amidst high security again.

The court, which was surrounded by armed officers, Hurd's detail of

how a two police constables were murdered. -- it heard detail. Fiona

Bone and Nicola Hughes had been sent to respond to reported

burglary. A 999 call was played to the book -- court. The prosecution

say was made by Dale Cregan under a false name. He had, it was said,

you're the officers to a terraced house, where he was armed, ready

and waiting for them. The court heard that when the officers

arrived, Dale Cregan opened fire. PC Hughes fell to the ground, and

he then shot her another three times. And PC Bone was trapped in

front of the lounge window and he fired at her 24 times. For then,

the prosecution say, Dale Cregan left his calling card. Before he

fled, he threw a grenade into the garden. It is claimed Dale Cregan

then drove to a police station to hand himself in. He is said to have

announced, I have dropped the gun at the scene and I have murdered

two police officers. You were hounding my family so I took it out

on you. He is also said to have stated, sorry about those two who

were killed. I wish it was men. The families of PCs bone and Hughes

have been in court, and they saw that as they heard the details of

the deaths. The prosecution described Dale Cregan as a man who

knew exactly what he was doing, with a clarity of mind, and also

with chilling precision. He and his co-defendants deny the charges

against them. The case resumes on Monday. The jury were told this is

not Dale Cregan's house, but that the night before the murders he had

come here and forced the family inside to allow him to stay. They

were terrified, the prosecution say, but Dale Cregan, they added, was

relaxed enough to send out for a beer, cigarettes and cigars. They

told the jury that he knew it was The Paul Smee scandal, ministers

say criminality may be to blame. -- the horsemeat scandal.

Coming up: The massive manhunt across three-stage...

A huge search for the Californian policeman turned killer who says he

would use all his training to avoid being caught.

And later in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, we are in Edinburgh

looking ahead to the second round of the Six Nations action as

Vicky Pryce has said she felt shocked and horrified after a

newspaper published a story about her taking speeding points on

behalf of her former husband, Chris Huhne. She was giving evidence in

her trial for perverting the course of justice, a charge she denies.

The former Energy Secretary resigned as a Lib Dem MP this week.

This report is from Tom Symonds and contains flash photography.

Friday, another day in the witness box for Vicky Pryce, hours more

examination of Rome role in the saga that resulted in Monday in her

husband's resignation. A key section of today's evidence focused

on the moment in 2003 when Vicky Pryce signed the forms to falsely

claimed she was the driver of Chris Huhne's car. She does start tonight,

she said she had no choice, bull was standing over with a pen. Their

defence is marital coercion, a law which says she was innocent if the

offences committed under the coercion of her husband. But the

prosecutor questioned whether that was the case.

You have made that up, he said, because you have been advised this

defence only applies if the husband is present at the time, that is why

you have made this story up. Vicky Pryce said, no, it is one of

my strongest memories, it is absolutely true.

Today the case delved into the couple's darkest moments, again

with the aim of helping the jury decide whether they could have been

coercion. Yesterday Vicky Pryce said that Chris Huhne had got her

to have an abortion. Today she revealed that there was another

pregnancy, another abortion had been booked, but on the day she

pulled out, she said she could not go for what it. The prosecutors

said this was an occasion when she had stood up to her former husband,

not been bullied by him. And Andrew Edis had earlier described her as

an experienced, clever, powerful woman. She responded that she was

not powerful and her family always came first. Chris Huhne's guilty

plea means this trial is now shorter than it could have been.

Vicky Pryce was the final witness. After legal argument next week, the

jury will consider its verdict. The Pakistani schoolgirl who was

shot in the head by the Taliban has been discharged from hospital

following surgery. Malala Yousafzai had a titanium plate fitted and an

implant to restore their hearing at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in

Birmingham. Doctors say she is making a good recovery. She was

attacked in October after campaigning for girls' rights to

education in Pakistan. A woman who was sexually abused as

a child by a choirmaster is believed to have taken her own life

just days after giving evidence at his trial. Frances Andrade was a

gifted violinist at Chetham's School of Music. She was indecently

assaulted by Michael Brewer and his ex-wife between 1978 and 1982. The

jury was not told of the death until the trial concluded today. Ed

Thomas was at Manchester Crown Court and sent this report which

contains some flash photography. A fine musician, an inspirational

teacher and honoured by the Queen. But the court was told Michael

Brewer had a problem, that he was attracted to his own pupils. His

victim was Frances Andrade, a talented violinist. She told the

jury she was first abused in 1978. She said it left her traumatised.

Days after giving evidence in court, she took her own life. Tragically,

she is not here to see justice done. Whilst I cannot talk about those

circumstances, on behalf of Greater Manchester Police, I would like to

offer my sincere condolences and sympathies to her family and

friends. The abuse started here at Chetham's School of Music. Michael

Brewer was its director of music. The court was told that every pupil

looked up to him. Frances Andrade told the court that she was abused

for several years. It began here at Chetham's School of Music when she

was 14 with assaults taking place in Michael Brewer's camper van and

his school of this. Michael Brewer was forced to leave Chetham's in

1994 after he started a relationship with another 17-year-

old pupil. The school did not pass on the information, and days later

he was told he would receive an OBE. Today the school said sorry. He has

been found to have committed the most appalling acts, which took

place at this time at the school. On behalf of the current school

staff, I wish to express my profound and sincere apology and

regret. Michael Brewer's former wife, Hilary Kay Brewer, was also

found guilty of indecent assault, and tonight Frances Andrade's

family said she was a brave loving mother but the impact of being

called a liar and fantasist in A huge manhunt is under way across

several states in America for a former police officer who has gone

on a shooting rampage. Christopher Dorner was sacked from the Los

Angeles police department and has posted threats, saying he will

bring warfare to the force. Mike Wooldridge reports.

That massive manhunt growing across the States for the heavily armed

ex-cop on the run accused of killing three and hunting for more.

The focus of the man anti-for Christopher Dorner is now in the

snowy mountains around Big Bear lake around 80 miles east of Los

Angeles, where police found his burnt-out pick-up truck. With a

degree in political science, he served in the US Navy before

joining and being fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. The

police say they were protecting over 40 possible targets of a

vengeful Dorner as he issued a chilling message online containing

this warning. I will utilise every bit of small-arms training,

demolition, ordnance and survival training I have been given, he

wrote, you have misjudged a sleeping giant. Of course he knows

what he is doing, we trained him, he was also a member of the armed

forces. It is extremely worrisome and scary. Especially to the police

officers involved. Last Sunday two people were killed here, one of

them the daughter of a retired police officer. Dorner is wanted

over those killings and also over this attack on Wednesday night in

which one police officer was killed and another injured. It is a scary

situation, I phoned 911, who is next? You do not know. This will

probably end very badly for him. I do not see a peaceful ending.

hair-trigger alert, police guarding a potential target shot and wounded

two women in this vehicle believed to be a tragic case of mistaken

identity. This is now thought to be the biggest-ever manhunt in

southern California as police tried to track down a man who was one of

their own and he says his actions are being driven by his claims of

injustice. There has been disappointment for

England's women cricketers in the World Cup in India. The defending

champions needed 148 to win against Australia but fell to run short of

that total. They now face an uphill task if they are to progress to the

final. Joe Wilson reports from Mumbai.

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

their daily routines, exercise can be social for some, but not if you

are playing in cricket's classic confrontation, England were here to

be their ultimate opponents, Australia, of course, and they had

them at their mercy. 21-year-old Anya Shrubsole was unstoppable as

England took five wickets in the first hour. The conditions suited

the bowlers and they make the most of it. Only a mid-innings rally

took Australia to 147 all out. A small total soon seemed mountainous

as England folded, A tupped lbw Cork against Charlotte Edwards, but

England did not help themselves. -- a tough LBW call. Panic gripped the

batting, England were 39-6. The skipper sensed the game was up, but

Lydia Greenway build an innings of 49 to give England hope until she

was out. When England's last woman came in, 34 runs were needed, was

Anya Shrubsole nervous? No chance, she took England to the brink, just

two behind, but the faintest brush of the bat denied them, caught, all

out, all over. Not the end of the world for England, but it almost

felt like it. Colvin and Shrubsole are the most calm people at the

wicket, so we will always really confident, they are quite capable

of getting the runs. It just was not to be a. Two emphatic victories

in their next two games and England could still reach the final, but

somehow they have got to recover A look at the weather now with

Susan Powell, I think more snow is I think you might be right, it is

definitely a wintry weekend, the cold is going to stay with us, and

by Sunday with a new weather system coming from the Atlantic there is a

risk of disruptive snow. That said, these showers to the east of the UK

could be wintry in the next few hours, and we could see ice first

thing on Saturday. Further west, this weather front will bring a lot

of cloud and will keep temperatures in the west a little bit higher

overnight tonight. Outbreaks of rain mostly here, but where the

rain meets that cold air, they could be sleet and snow, and there

is a chance of ice first thing on Saturday. Saturday will be pretty

Grade 4 the majority of the UK, the best sunshine to the Far East. --

will be a pretty grey day. Not expecting too much snow sapling,

but there could be some over high ground. Temperatures really

struggling, a chilly start to the weekend. Sunday, though, is our

biggest headache in terms of the forecast with a more active area of

weather coming from the Atlantic, running into the cold air, so it

looks like we will see outbreaks of rain turning to snow through Sunday.

Heavy rain could be a problem across Wales, southern England and

Northern Ireland, but further into Sunday you can see that blew behind

the turning into white and we could see some problems. The risk of snow