It was the picture that perfectly captured the bleak state of NHS dentistry in 2024. Hundreds of desperate people standing in a queue that snaked into the distance, all clinging to the hope they might finally get the care they urgently needed.
The farce at the newly opened St Paul’s Dental Practice in Bristol – where an estimated 1,500 patients were registered for NHS treatment in just two days – highlighted the extent of the crisis that the sector currently
Brits are flying to Ukraine for dental treatment because of the ever-worsening NHS crisis.
Industry leaders and MPs have warned that patients have been left with no option but to jet out to the war-torn nation after being unable to get help in the UK.
The crisis in NHS dentistry has been brewing for years, with some Brits even forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers.
Others have queued from 4am to gain a spot at dentistry practices
Ukrainian conservationists have released several species of grazing animals, such as these Konik horses, into the Danube Delta with the aim of restoring biodiversity. Kristjan Jung/Rewilding Europe
This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
A livestock truck arrives on a wintry swath of grassland called the Tarutino Steppe in southern Ukraine. When the metal doors on the trailer swing open on this cold night, what emerges is not
An eerie and tantalizingly shiny ‘metallic orb’ UFO, caught on tape by the US military in the Middle East, may have finally been identified.
Footage of the object, hovering beneath an MQ-9 Reaper drone, was filmed on July 12, 2022 and played publicly for the first time before the US Senate’s Armed Services Committee last April.
But now data scientists with the controversial, but ostensibly independent ‘open-source’ investigation group Bellingcat say that they have ‘deflated’ widespread speculation that the object
Ukrainian wildcard Elina Svitolina broke down in tears after her run finally came to an end – as she admitted the pressure was too much as she described the responsibility she felt representing her war-torn nation.
Speaking after the loss, she thanked her country for their ‘massive support’, but admitted representing it on the world stage has been a lot of pressure.
It came after the glamorous tennis star, 28, lost in two straight sets to Czech player Marketa Vondrousova
“We didn’t expect this level of hatred. They destroyed everything.” The words are spoken by Araz Imanov, a special representative of the Azerbaijani President for the Karabakh region, who is acting as my guide during a two-day visit organised by the Azeri government to what people in the country call the “liberated territories”. As we drive through the war-torn landscape, we pass abandoned Armenian defensive positions, villages and
Bombs shrieked overhead as Anastasia Piddubna’s contractions quickened. The war had robbed the hospital basement where she was in labour of both power and water.
The only warmth to protect her from the -5c degree chill blasting through holes in the walls was a coat flung over her shivering body; the only light in the makeshift birthing centre in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol was the torch from smartphones.
Having been evacuated here after surviving Russia’s barbaric attack on
Residents are living in fear on one of ‘Britain’s roughest estates’ where yobs as young as 10 have been running riot and even ripping live pigeons apart.
Blakenall, in Walsall, West Midlands, has been compared to ‘war-torn Ukraine’ after the area began falling into a state of disrepair during the past two years.
Locals are constantly being plagued by violence and anti-social behaviour and say they are too scared to leave their homes – even in the daytime.
Feral youths
Football fans were left in tears last night after Ukrainian player Oleksandr Zinchenko embraced fellow countryman Vitaliy Mykolenko in an emotional show of support for their country in the wake of Russia’s invasion.
But the touching move was unsurprising from Zinchenko, 25, whose own remarkable journey to the Premier League club saw him flee to Moscow as a teenager after Russia’s invasion of Crimea.
Now a top midfielder on a reported salary of £20,000 a week, he’s come along way
