Summary
DIY dentistry on the rise as Britons struggle to find NHS treatment.
A BBC investigation has found that nine in 10 practices across the UK are not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service. Adam is joined by BBC health correspondent Dominic Hughes and dentist Dr Dipali Chokshi to chew over the findings.
And Succession actor Brian Cox chats about the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
This episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Miranda Slade and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's getting very hot again, and it's going to be particularly hot in the middle |
| 0:09.5 | and end of the week, and there's still very little rain around. |
| 0:14.3 | We've now got a host pipe ban in Hampshire and the Isle of White, lots of other places |
| 0:18.9 | thinking about it too. |
| 0:20.9 | And it's not just a problem here in the UK, it's all around the world. |
| 0:24.6 | Remember, Peter got in touch from New Mexico to talk about the dry up riverbed there? |
| 0:30.0 | Well, another newscaster got in touch about another part of the world. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi, newscast. |
| 0:34.5 | This is Sarah and I'm calling from the Ryan River in Strasbourg, France. |
| 0:40.0 | I was inspired by the listener who called in from the Rio Grande in the US without any water. |
| 0:46.1 | And I'm having a look out the window right now on the Ryan River. |
| 0:50.2 | And well, we do still have water, but it's not as much as it should be. |
| 0:54.2 | We're about two months away from the time of year when it's usually the lowest in terms |
| 0:58.8 | of water level. |
| 1:00.4 | And it's already incredibly low. |
| 1:02.0 | So watching ships go by, freight ships go by, and the coal ships are at least half empty, |
| 1:08.8 | container ships quite empty as well. |
| 1:11.6 | And we are going past the industrial hardland of Germany, really. |
| 1:15.5 | That's where a lot of the Ryan River cargo comes from and goes to. |
| 1:20.5 | And that's becoming real issue for industry now because it's just so limited what they |
| 1:25.2 | can transport, so shifting to different transport modes to railway, to the street. |
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