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Findus frozen beef lasagne was found to be 100 per cent horsemeat, and Tesco frozen ‘Everyday Value’ spaghetti bolognese 60 per cent horse. French suppliers blamed a Romanian abattoir. Waitrose withdrew frozen beef meatballs in which pork was thought to be present. Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, told the food industry to publish soon the results of their own testing of meat products. He then flew to Brussels for talks. Police raided a slaughterhouse in West Yorkshire that the Food Standards Agency believed had supplied horse carcasses to a meat company at Aberystwyth. Dr Mark Woolfe, formerly a scientist with the Food Standards Agency, said that the import of cheap meat stemmed from a decision by the European Commission last April no longer to classify as a form of meat ‘desinewed meat’ recovered from bones. A four-week-old boy had a finger re-attached by surgeons after he was attacked by a fox at his home in south-east London.
The Appeal Court found that requiring Cait Reilly, 24, a graduate, to work for nothing at a Poundland store in order to claim benefit was unlawful; the government both appealed against the judgment and set about adjusting the relevant regulations. From 2019 or later, no one in England will have to pay more than £75,000 towards old-age care (not including food, heating and paying for a room) under plans announced by Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary; payment would cease once someone has less than £123,000 left. A quarter of home-care services for old people in England fail to meet proper standards of quality or safety, according to inspectors from the Care Quality Commission. In January, the rate of inflation measured by the CPI remained unchanged at 2.7
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