Newspaper review: Horsemeat scandal fallout goes on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21489560 Version 0 of 1. The fallout from the horsemeat scandal, in which such meat was found in products supposedly containing beef, is analysed in Sunday's papers. Food critic Jay Rayner, writing in the <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/" >Observer,</a> says the scandal shows how supermarkets have failed to react to vast changes in the global food market. John Prescott, in the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/" >Sunday Mirror,</a> points to the dominance of supermarkets and their relentless obsession to drive down the cost of goods. Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/299142/Shoppers-flocking-to-back-local-butchers/" >the Star urges its readers to buy their meat from local butchers.</a> Ex-NHS executive Gary Walker, who shared concerns over patient safety in a radio interview and was threatened with legal action for breaking a gagging order, generates many column inches. The <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/" >Sunday Mirror</a> says his treatment shocked the nation. For the <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/" >Sunday Times,</a> it speaks volumes about the way the modern NHS works. Ministers are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9874234/Mid-Staffs-crisis-No-one-wants-to-talk-about-the-real-scandal-of-our-time.html" >right to insist that staff must be assured they can speak freely if they sense something is wrong,</a> says the Sunday Telegraph. Chancellor George Osborne's <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/revealed-leaked-document-exposes-george-osbornes-education-cuts-8498240.html" >"broken promise on schools"</a> is the front page story in the Independent on Sunday. The paper says confidential Whitehall papers prove a "real terms cut" in classroom funding. <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4799401/Sobbing-Oscar-Pistorius-4am-call-to-best-pal-after-shooting.html" >The Sun carries a two-page story on athlete Oscar Pistorius,</a> who has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The paper reports that <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article4798553.ece" >he tried to save her with the kiss of life</a> after she was shot. It also reports that on Saturday evening millions of South Africans watched a newly aired TV reality show featuring Ms Steenkamp. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/16/iceland-online-pornography" >Iceland could become the first democracy in the Western world to try to ban online pornography</a> after a national consultation found widespread support for such a move, reports the Observer. Web filters, blocked addresses and making it a crime to use Icelandic credit cards to access pay-per-view pornography are being considered. The birth of a baby boy for Hugh Grant is reported in the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/mailonsunday/index.html" >Mail on Sunday.</a> It recounts how he tweeted news that his second child had been born. "Am thrilled my daughter now has a brother. Adore them both to an uncool degree. They have a fab mum," the actor wrote. |