Thousands more people will have to pay inheritance tax to help fund social care reforms, the government is expected to announce.

Retailers will now carry out "more and tougher testing" of beef products in the wake of widespread horsemeat contamination, the environment secretary says.

The government hails its "fully-funded solution" for elderly people in England who cannot afford social care, but campaigners are wary.

The Romanian government is investigating whether horsemeat discovered in beef products in Britain and France came from an abattoir in Romania.