Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 13 Feb 2012

1. MET CHIEF DIZAEI JAILED FOR CORRUPTION

Metropolitan Police commander Ali Dizaei has been jailed for three years after being convicted of misconduct and perverting the course of justice at a retrial. He was found guilty of framing a man after a fight in 2010, but his conviction was quashed last year. Now he has been convicted for a second time.

2. SUN JOURNALISTS 'TREATED LIKE GANG'

Trevor Kavanagh, veteran political journalist and associate editor of the Sun, has penned an impassioned editorial in the beleaguered paper saying its staff are being "treated like an organised crime gang" by police mounting a huge and costly "witch hunt" which "puts us behind ex-Soviet states on press freedom".

'Civil war' as Sun journalists turn on Rupert Murdoch

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3. ADELE BRINGS HOME SIX GRAMMYS

British singer Adele will need a bigger mantelpiece after winning an embarrassment of Grammys at last night's music awards, including album of the year for 21 and best single for Rolling in the Deep. In all, she won six awards. The night was filled with tributes to late singer Whitney Houston.

Houston death overshadows Adele's big Grammys win

4. BOBBI HOUSTON TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Bobbi Brown, daughter of soul legend Whitney Houston, who was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel bath on Saturday, was taken to hospital yesterday. She is thought to have been treated for stress. Police say they found no illegal drugs in Houston's room and 'foul play' has been ruled out – but she was taking the sedative Xanax.

Houston was 'acting strangely' in the days before her death

5. CBI: NO DOUBLE DIP RECESSION

The business lobby group the CBI has forecast a return to growth for the UK economy this year, predicting that Britain will escape a double dip recession. But CBI chief John Cridland also warned: "Conditions will be tough… and the UK recovery will depend on the successful resolution of the eurozone crisis."

British economy will escape a double-dip recession, says CBI

6. QUIET PLEASE! THE ARTIST SWEEPS BAFTAS

French director Michel Hazanavicius joked that the British must be "very clever" after his silent movie, The Artist, won the Bafta for Best Original Screenplay last night. The 1930s-set romantic comedy took seven of the awards including Best Film and Best Actor for de-moustachioed leading man Jean Dujardin.

Pray silence for The Artist: clean sweep at the Baftas

7. ABU QATADA TO BE RELEASED TODAY

Extremist Muslim cleric Abu Qatada was due to be released from Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire today amid exhaustive efforts in London and Amman to find a solution to the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that he should not be deported to his native Jordan. Under the conditions of his bail, he will only be allowed to leave his house for one hour twice a day.

New moves in London and Amman to get Qatada deported

8. CAMERON'S FOOTBALL RACISM SUMMIT

David Cameron has called in both FA and Premier League officials to discuss discrimination in football after the sports news at the weekend was dominated by Liverpool's Luis Suarez, who refused to shake hands with Man United's Patrice Evra, whom he previously racially abused. Suarez has now said sorry.

What good will Cameron's football racism summit do?

9. SCOTLAND: TALKS ON REFERENDUM KICK OFF

The Scottish and British governments begin talks on Scotland's proposed independence referendum today, with the SNP (Scottish National Party) making it clear it will not compromise on its preferred 2014 date, while David Cameron's coalition government would still like the poll to be held much sooner.

10. HOT TICKET: POP GOES THE TATE

A major survey of influential Japanese surreal pop artist Yayoi Kasuma has opened at Tate Modern. The show spans the eccentric octogenarian’s early surrealist paintings, erotic 1960s anti-war imagery and more recent spot prints. Works of “spellbinding beauty”, says the Evening Standard. Until 5 June.