🦷 The NHS dentistry crisis could be fatal for some, if mouth cancer is missed

👩‍⚕️ That's what an NHS urgent-care dentist warned while I interviewed her for @theipaper after 3 of her shifts

She also sees children who need almost all their teeth removed aged just 3 😬

🧵👇 (1) The dentist I spoke to provides urgent & emergency care in the south-west England, a 'dental desert'

Almost all the patients she sees are "unregistered" and haven't been able to get an NHS appointment for years, she explained - leading to preventable illness and emergencies (2)

🚢 When P&O Ferries instantly fired 786 workers to use cheaper agency workers, the PM said they "aren’t going to get away with it"

A year on, what's happened?

No criminal prosecution
Same boss
Fire & rehire/replace still legal

My @theipaper long read:
inews.co.uk/news/politics/… 2) Concerned that there's been "no consequence" for P&O Ferries, Parliament's business committee chair @darrenpjones warns: "Other bosses who want to do similar things will look at this and say: 'If they can get away with it, surely I can.'"
inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

🚨 Journalists can't reveal an MP being investigated for alleged rape, nor a Tory donor suing the BBC for his Paradise Papers naming

Is that fair?

Editors and legal experts worry media gagging is worsening

🧵 A thread on my #LongRead for @theipaper: inews.co.uk/news/media/fre… 2) The Government says it wants to protect freedom of the press

But critics say that two of its proposed laws - the Bill of Rights and the National Security Bill - actually risk making things worse

Barrister Geoffrey Robertson KC calls the legislation "squalid" and "dishonest"

🚨 Paramedics speak out over fatal ambulance delays & finding people dead hours after they called 999

🚑 I interviewed one after each shift for four days to get a full picture of the pressures & problems they face

🧵 A thread on my @theipaper long read:
inews.co.uk/news/health/nh… 2) The paramedic I've been interviewing said: “I’ve had patients where a 999 call has come through to us for a chest pain. You turn up seven or eight hours later & there’s no answer at the door, you have to get the fire service to break it down, & you find someone dead in bed"

🚨 Today a junction in London will be named after Boris Nemtsov by @CamdenCouncil

🇷🇺 A former deputy PM of Russia and one of Putin's biggest opponents, he was murdered in 2015

🧵 His daughter @ZhannaNemtsova has spoken to me for @theipaper - thread below
inews.co.uk/news/world/fat… 2) Nemtsov was shot dead in the centre of Moscow on 27 February 2015

It happened just 200m from the Kremlin, in view of Putin's centre of power

In this Getty photo, Nemtsov's body is seen lying in the street, hidden under plastic, with St Basil's Cathedral behind:

🚨 Undercover investigation finds workers in China making clothes for Shein, world’s biggest fast-fashion brand, are:
👗 Paid 3p per item
👚 Working 18-hour days
👙 Given no weekends + only one day off a month

@Channel4 findings shared with @theipaper:
inews.co.uk/news/consumer/… 2) This first undercover report into the Shein supply chain also found that workers have their pay withheld for the first month

The investigation - led by @ImaniAmrani - will be shown in 'Untold: Inside the Shein Machine', streaming on All4 from Monday

⚠️ This is what would happen if UK ran out of gas

🚨 Emergency preparations have been made for years - it's still v unlikely but risk has risen

📢 Plans include public appeals via TV, social media & loudhailer

🧵 @theipaper long read here, thread below:
inews.co.uk/news/long-read… 2) Plans for what to do in a 'Network Gas Supply Emergency' are set by @nationalgriduk and @beisgovuk

We've never had one before - the closest was during the 'Beast From the East' in 2018, when demand for gas to heat properties soared while temperatures dropped to below -20°C

🩺 Dr Shahed Yousaf opens up about working as a prison GP

🥼 If things go wrong while treating a murderer, "you need to just run out of the room and hit a panic alarm"

💊 It was fascinating speaking with the author of 'Stitched Up' for @theipaper:
inews.co.uk/news/long-read… Dr Yousaf felt he had to speak out on the crisis inside our jails:

“I’ve worked in over a dozen prisons. I’ve worked with young offenders, with women, with men of all categories. Similar problems affect all the sites I’ve been at: understaffing, overcrowding, underfunding."

🚨 My exclusive: Missguided faces a winding-up petition after the fast-fashion retailer stopped paying its suppliers

🧵 For @theipaper I've spoken with three factory owners owed millions - one had to ask his wife & mum to sell their jewellery to pay wages
inews.co.uk/news/business/… Several suppliers visited Missguided’s head office in Manchester on Tuesday to complain after concerns about their missing payments were ignored - the police were called and staff were sent home.

Workers in the HQ have stopped picking up the phone, according to a company source.