The nations oral health. The party says it will also introduce supervised toothbrush washing in schools across england in order to tackle preventable tooth decay in children. People in most need of children. People in most need of treatments , including fillings treatments, including fillings and root canal work , would be and root canal work, would be prioritised under proposals aimed at rescuing nhs dentistry, as they call it. The plans would as they call it. The plans would be backed. Labour says by £111 million a year, which they say will come from abolishing non domiciled tax status. Sir keir says labour wants to target areas where people cant get a dental appointment too many places across the country theres a desert out where you cant get an nhs dentist, so we also have a scheme in place to ensure that we get a newly qualified dentists into to those areas. So thats the immediate fix. But obviously in the longer term we need to do preventative measures. So the third limb of this
But before all of that, lets get the news with polly middlehurst. Middlehurst. Nigel, thank you and good evening. Well, the news begins with the story of a man who broke into Windsor Castle armed with a loaded crossbow with intent of killing the late queen. Hes been sentenced today to nine years in jail for treason and just one single wounded into the grounds for two hours on Christmas Day in 2021. While the late queen was still in residence , the old bailey in residence, the old bailey heard hed been encouraged by an Artificial Intelligence virtue loyal girlfriend with which hed exchanged thousands of messages. As the judge said, jail was non psychotic and therefore culpable when he devised his plot. But it had lost touch with reality and became psychotic by the time he carried it out. Sir the time he carried it out. Sir keir starmer has revealed today an extra 700,000 urgent dental appointments would be introduced under labour plans to improve the nations oral health. The party says