05/02/2018 London News

Thank you.

an undercover investigation.

You are not supposed to use what I

use.

We go undercover to expose the rogue

beauticians offering illegal,

and potentially dangerous,

teeth whitening treatments.

It's putting a patient's life

at risk doing procedures not

in a dental surgery...seeing

this is astounding.

It shouldn't happen.

Also ahead this evening.

Offering Londoners first

choice on some new homes.

But can the Mayor's voluntary scheme

really work in practice?

Why thousands of women in Essex may

need ANOTHER smear test

after some were wrongly given

the all clear.

Plus.

Why you're never too

old to skateboard.

The trio encouraging others

to follow their lead.

A very good evening

to you and welcome to the programme.

We start with a BBC London

investigation exposing rogue

beauticians who carry out illegal

tooth whitening treatments.

Achieving that perfect

smile is big business -

with hundreds of dental clinics

in the capital offering teeth

whitening treatments.

Carried out by qualified

professionals it's a safe

and simple procedure.

But in the wrong hands, dentists say

it can lead to crippling pain,

burns and blisters and even put

patients' lives at risk.

Guy Lynn has this special report.

You know that sound.

Tooth scraping.

At the dentist or hygienist.

But this is a beautician

with zero dental training.

About to illegally apply

a hazardous bleaching gel to

whiten our researcher's teeth.

Teeth whitening is

one of the UK's most

popular cosmetic procedures.

After a series of

treatments, patients can

have dramatically whiter teeth.

But as it is a medical

procedure, only a

dentist or regulated dental

professional can legally do it on

customers.

And these pictures show why.

Used incorrectly, the bleaching

agent hydrogen peroxide can cause

burns, blisters and gum damage.

BBC London went

undercover to find rogue

beauticians offering treatments.

Such as Ashley Smith

near Paddington who charges £100,

and implies she's qualified.

Her only qualification

is a one-day course

with a tooth whitening firm.

OK, darling, you just relax.

Yet she legally performs

dental procedures.

If you are seeing

somebody on the high

street that has attended

a

one-day course, and putting that

into perspective, dentists attend a

five-year training programme

in order to qualify, you're placing

yourself in harm's way.

The whitening kits and

toothpastes you can buy on

the high street can only contain

a maximum of 0.01% of the bleaching

agent hydrogen peroxide.

Anything stronger, up to 6%,

must be prescribed by a dentist.

Hello.

Hi.

Nice to meet you.

Fran Low from West Ham

is no dentist.

But this untrained

beautician carries out

dental procedures in her bedroom.

Don't touch that, if it

gets on your hands, it

will burn your hands.

Oh!

And tells us what strength hydrogen

peroxide she will use to whiten

teeth.

It does have hydrogen

peroxide in it?

Yeah, it does, yeah.

25%.

By using whitener more than four

times the strength allowed

for a dentist she is breaking

the law and knows it.

Obviously, you know,

in all honesty you're not

supposed to use what I use.

It is for the dentist, isn't it.

That's why you pay

£300 to go and have

your teeth done at the dentist.

So will she go ahead?

First she gives us the gumshield.

Bite down now, that's it.

Then she applies hydrogen peroxide.

What's that?

This is the peroxide.

Usually she would leave it

on for well over an hour.

But we've taken dental

advice and abort

straightaway.

You want to take it off?

You do?

Take it off!

After filming, our

researcher gets the

peroxide removed, has a full dental

checkup and gets the all clear.

I can see quite bad burns...

Ben Atkins treats people

after they've had

botched hydrogen

peroxide operations.

We showed him our

undercover footage.

He says it is the worst he's seen.

It's putting a patient's life

at risk, doing dental procedures not

in the dental surgery.

I see the other side

when things have gone

wrong and patients have

come into my surgery

and I've got to deal

with

it.

And seeing this, it's beyond...

it's astounding.

It shouldn't happen.

Ashley Smith said she used a safe

non-peroxide prom product, but

ignored all our requests

for a response.

Fran Low denied buying,

storing or using peroxide gels on

customers.

She claims she said she did

in order to get a sale.

She then said that she

was not aware that

what she was doing was illegal,

and now says that she has stopped

doing teeth whitening altogether.

She also sold us a syringe

with 700 times the

strength peroxide that can be

purchased on the high street.

We will be handing that

tpo the authorities

and during our investigation

we heard of many other

beauticians ignoring

warnings, playing roulette

with patient safety.

Guy Lynn, BBC London News.

And please do get in touch

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You're watching BBC

London News, coming up

later in the programme.

100 years since women

marched to victory

securing the vote -

we look at how it changed

Londoners' lives.

Next: "First dibs to Londoners".

That was one of Sadiq

Khan's housing promises

during his mayoral campaign.

Now, nearly two years on, we've got

some idea of what it means.

House builders have agreed

voluntarily to offer some new homes

for sale to Londoners BEFORE

they get marketed abroad.

But not everyone is convinced it'll

help tackle the housing crisis.

Here's our Political

Editor Tim Donovan.

I will give Londoners first dibs on

new homes built.

Much favoured

campaign mantra to tackle foreign

ownership by prioritising Londoners.

But and was not the mayor but his

deputy who told us today have the

housing sector had come on board

voluntarily to make this happen.

Right now this is the way, through

this voluntary offer, of making sure

Londoners get first dibs, we can

make sure that they do get first

dibs as soon as is a.

How would it

work? Firstly it applies only to

homes on sale for under £350,000,

nearly 6000 of those were sold in

London last year.

It's not much

different to his predecessor, it's a

voluntary agreement, he hasn't used

the full weight of the system, it

won't deliver much in the way of new

homes especially as he hasn't built

many.

I doubt if this will be

effective. The problem we have is

people buying homes they don't

intend to live in. That should be

the focus of policy and that can be

done by planning conditions.

Who

exactly will benefit and when? The

pledges to sell to UK buyers for

three months before any marketing

properties overseas and Londoners

will get the exclusive right to buy

within the first month. But this

doesn't stop foreign buyouts buying

as long as they live and work in

London.

Is the mayor has been clear

London is open to everyone around

the world to come here and live

here, he wants everyone to come and

live here and contribute to society.

Although this doesn't stop foreign

buyers from buying the property

which was the reason for the policy.

What people didn't like was the

homes sold overseas before two

Londoners, some were even being sold

abroad before being offered here for

sale.

Does this discriminate? City

Hall says no because it's voluntary.

It does accept that there are

house-builders yet to come onside

but they help the mayor will be able

to offer first dibs for Londoners by

the end of the girl. So a chance to

the mayor to close loopholes and

establish exactly how will work.

And Tim is here with

us in the studio.

It does raise questions. What is

your assessment about whether it

will work in practice?

We're still completely unclear how

it will be policed, City Hall hasn't

said that says house-builders will

come up with a way which will

reassure them whether people are

eligible, whether you can call

yourself a London. Although it seems

they will be no requirement to have

lived here for some time so someone

moving here and starting to live you

could arguably buy one. The wider

difficulty is that this is voluntary

because you can't compel developers,

house-builders, as things stand, to

make arrangements like this. It

would be restrained to trade, open

to all kinds of action from these

developers who want to sell houses

across the world. So it is voluntary

and in as far as that has been

achieved by the mayor that is

something. I think it's worth saying

to a number of people, foreign

buyers and investors are not the

villains of the piece because it is

often their money, particularly when

they are buying before a brick has

even gone in the ground, that

enables the development to come of

that. That often enables a big share

of affordable housing as well. So

it's very tricky, it a balance to be

struck by the mayor here.

OK, thank

you, Tim Donovan.

Well, we know the scale of the task

of housebuilding in the capital

and then there are also big

infrastructure projects

in the pipeline, including HS2.

In all, it's estimated that 10,000

new construction jobs

will be created here over

the next five years.

But with a shortage of skilled

workers in London -

it raises the question

"who will fill them"...

As our Political Correspondent

Karl Mercer reports.

They're building a new school

and new homes here in Paddington.

And London's going to need

a whole lot more of them.

Which means it will

need a whole lot more

workers like these.

According to the industry

training body,

the capital will need 10,000 more

construction workers over

the next five years.

It will be a challenge.

We need to retrain and retain

the people that are already in our

workforce.

We've got fantastically

talented people.

And then we need to recruit

people into doing that.

It's not just these hands-on jobs

that will be needed though.

The industry is about more than

working on chilly sites in February.

I think there is a real chance that

people just see us from the

practical trades perspective which

are vital for the delivery of their

projects.

However I think we sometimes

overlook the other skills

which are needed in industry as a

whole, and they range from

professional architectural skill

sets, consultants, sustainability

and environmental skills.

That might explain this latest video

from the Institution

of Civil Engineers,

aimed at schoolchildren

to get them interested

in a career in construction.

Part of the effort of the industry

to sell itself better at a time

when jobs are being created but some

skills can be in short supply.

We're well aware of the existing

skills gap and

there's a huge risk with Brexit.

That that's exacerbated.

So making sure we've got

the skilled people we need in

the places we need them to complete

the infrastructure here in London,

that's a huge challenge

for the industry.

It is a worry, it's a worry

because London is this amazing

vibrant city, but our global status

is at risk if we don't do things

like nearly treble the number

of homes being built in the capital,

improving our infrastructure.

They are challenges

that will need workers.

Thousands of them.

The challenge will be to find

those workers in time.

Karl Mercer, BBC London News.

One of the ringleaders convicted

of the Hatton Garden

heist has died in prison, aged 69.

Terry Perkins was jailed for seven

years after stealing over

£13 million of valuables

in the 2015 raid.

He's believed to have

been ill for some time,

and there will be an independent

investigation into his death.

The father of an 11-month old baby

boy is to challenge

a High Court judgment

allowing doctors to withdraw

life support treatment.

Specialists at King's College

Hospital had argued that giving

further intensive care treatment

to Isaiah Haastrup was "futile"

and not in his best interests.

The Government has insisted tower

blocks are safe despite having

to order a retesting of insulation

materials used

on the Grenfell Tower.

Labour's Housing spokesman

John Healey told the House

of Commons the governments fire

testing system was in chaos:

But Housing Minister Dominic Raab

insisted the Government

had acted promptly.

On first hearing of this I made sure

at director level in my department

the empty for Celotex was contacted.

We understand how seriously they

take the testing issue and they will

act as soon as reasonably possible

to get it retested.

Thousands of smear samples tested

at a laboratory in Essex may

need to be reviewed.

It's after some women in the county

were wrongly given the all-clear.

Let's get more details

from Marc Ashdown.

What can you tell us?

All women

between 25 and 64 are offered smear

test to check for cervical cancer.

These tests are from a lab that

carries out testing the two trusts,

Southend and Basildon and Thurrock.

It has emerged that 17 women were

given the all clear by mistake. They

been contacted for screening again

or for further tests. Because of

this a further 2500 samples are now

being tested again. We are told

about 900 have been done so far and

depending what happens with them, if

there are significant variations,

the worst-case scenario is that all

55,000 women who had smear test in

that area over the past few years

might have to be tested again. The

local MP says this is very troubling

and raises serious issues.

One of the big questions that

I don't understand, if the fault was

found last June, why has it taken

so long to come to light?

And I don't understand

why the governance

procedures were not in place

so that this must have been more

rigorous.

But, at the moment, it

just seems to be simply

speculation.

As to exactly what went on.

Whatever hospital trusts had to say

about this? We got a statement from

Basildon saying they understand this

is a potentially worrying time for

the women involved and they would

like to reassure all of them this

was an isolated incident. We

understand an independent screening

service has been brought in Fotherby

tests and is expected to take a

couple weeks. Women whose tests come

back never did -- negative will not

be contacted. If there is an issue,

the hospital will contact you.

Cervical cancer is one of the most

deadly forms of cancer but one of

the most easily preventable. The

message from Public Health England

is pleased to not be put off going

for a test.

Thank you. Do stay with us.

Still to come before 7...

These guys were around before

rolling about on four wheels

in the park was even a thing.

Meet the Very Old Skateboarders.

Flick coats, hats and gloves at the

ready. We are in for a couple of

very cold nights. Details coming up.

As tomorrow marks 100 years since

the bill was passed giving some

women the vote, all this week, we

will be talking to Londoners lived

through and then -- through an

historic time.

Many women living in London

were still in service or working

in factories at the start

of the twentieth century -

they were relying on suffragettes

and a handful of sympathetic men

in parliament to fight their cause.

Sale are so spoken to women who at

the age of 103, has lived through a

century of change. -- sale has

opened two.

Now living in a Surrey care home,

Rose was born in 1914 and was told

by her parents that being a servant

was the only career open to her.

But she had other ideas.

I didn't want to go

into service, no way.

So I gathered my things and I got

on a bus and I left home.

I wasn't going to be

anybody's lackey.

I was worth more than that.

Rose trained to be a midwife,

encouraged by the bill making it

possible for some women to vote.

But there were still many rules that

didn't apply to the men.

How were women treated

if they got married in the job?

Oh, you couldn't.

So many were married

and they had their wedding rings

round their neck, hidden.

Marches demanding equality

were regularly held on the streets

of London but in Parliament,

protesters were relying

on the men to change the law.

Conservative politician

Baroness Jenkin campaigns

for more women MPs.

She is the great granddaughter

of Willoughby Dickinson,

who introduced the first women's

suffrage bill in 1907 and every year

until he lost his own

St Pancras seat in 1918.

He had two very clever sisters,

and one was a very eminent

doctor who was born,

I think, in 1958.

And she was a radiologist

and her husband was a very eminent

doctor and, in fact,

they set up I think six hospitals

in Serbia during the First World War

and he looked at his two sisters

in awe and he thought,

how is it that I as a man

have the vote and these two sisters

of mine don't?

So I think that was what was

behind his campaigning.

The bill turned out to be

only the beginning.

All women over 21 had

to wait another decade

until they got the vote.

Sarah Harris, BBC London news.

Looking ahead now to this

year's Sport Relief

which was launched today.

When people right the capital get

active and help raise

money for charities.

The last one raised £10 million.

And to give us a sense of just how

much your cash helps change lives,

Ian Williams has been to a charity

in Harrow which supports vulnerable

young Londoners who self-harm

or have experienced abuse.

An unassuming suburban street.

or have experienced abuse.

But for the people who

visit the Wish Centre,

is a special place.

Everyone who walks in the door

here can see that it really changing

lives and really

saving lives as well.

I know that was

definitely true for me.

People of all ages,

races, genders...

Emily first came here

when she was 14 because of

bullying and problems at home.

One of thousands of

vulnerable young people

who have been helped

by the charity.

I just think it offers something

really special, really unique and

something that we really need.

It just opened up

this whole world to

me that I didn't even know existed.

And it was the first place I'd ever

come where I felt understood.

Maddie is another of

the young people the

Wish Centre has helped who have

struggled with self-harming.

It's a cycle that

you can't get out of.

It's an addictive thing.

You need something to sort

of get you out of that.

And for me, it was talking.

Her depression was

so severe that she

considered taking her own life.

But the support provided has

changed that.

Before I came here, I didn't think

any of what I am doing

now would be possible.

I didn't think I could

move away from home or

socialise with friends,

enjoy my uni course.

Just live a normal life.

Hello, Sport Relief 2016.

We know that Sport Relief

and Comic Relief

have been doing really good work

in various places in the UK

and abroad for quite some time.

In 2016, generous

Londoners helped to raise

and donate £6.9 million

to the overall Sport Relief

total of £55 million.

And that has helped more than 300

projects across the region.

We need to pay for premises

and have a safe place

where people can come.

We would not be able to run

without the funding we have had

from Comic Relief and Sport Relief.

It may look small on the

outside but, you know,

it really does help people.

Ian Williams with that report.

This year, Sport Relief

is challenging

the nation to do a billion steps

a day during Sport Relief

week which runs between

the 17th and 23rd of March.

If you would like to get involved,

and we do hope you will, download

the Sport Relief steps application.

You can find out how

at bbc.co.uk/sportrelief.com.

Skateboarding - fair to say

it's generally thought

of as a young person's pastime.

And when three people

in their 50s and 60s were told

they were too old to board,

they decided to prove them wrong.

So meet Elizabeth, Keith and Sabina,

who've created a social media group

that's encouraging others to race

around London's green spaces.

Wendy Hurrell reports

from Hyde Park.

I

from Hyde Park.

I am

from Hyde Park.

I am Elizabeth,

from Hyde Park.

I am Elizabeth, 66.

from Hyde Park.

I am Elizabeth, 66.

Keith,

from Hyde Park.

I am Elizabeth, 66.

Keith, 54.

from Hyde Park.

I am Elizabeth, 66.

Keith, 54.

Sabina, 66.

Together, they are the

Very Old Skateboarders. The group

will feature in Facebook's

first-ever exhibition at the

Southbank Centre from Thursday which

Emma Bates our diverse passions. It

has made them realise that their

four-wheeled enthusiasm is not so

strange.

It was the Fat, are we on

our own? And realising we are not.

We are not niche at all. There are

so many aged skateboarders all

across the world. You get into

skating comedy very really get out

of it.

Sabina Took it up at age 50

one. But this woman has been doing

it since of 20.

Anywhere that is a beautiful path.

Being beautiful places and skating.

New people, long, 50, 60 years old,

someone in her 70s said, I want to

learn to skate.

Keith is just back

on his board after a shoulder

operation and he commutes in his.

People are generally confused. It

depends on what I am wearing. There

was a time I was wearing a filled in

-- I was wearing a dinner suit and I

got some interesting looks.

You

don't have to be at the more mature

end of the scale. MS 23. The

exhilaration and adrenaline that you

experience makes you feel so alive.

And we call it stoke.

That's the

lingo?

Stoke.

Skate slang memorised,

I get on board. Let's see if they

can teach this young-ish pup new

tricks. It'll be a while before I

get the hang of things.

You're telling me used to have a

skateboard?

I put out my bike to my skateboard.

I had one of those voting ones like

in Back To The Future. Of course you

did!

Icy weather?

Is very cold couple of my sun away.

The mornings will very chilly

indeed. A hard frost on the way

indeed. A hard frost on the way

tonight and tomorrow night will be

the coldest night of the week. Right

now, we have got some clouds in the

sky. We have had some snow flurries.

They have not been falling over

London. Mostly towards the extreme

south-east across Kent and Sussex.

But I think tonight it is a bit of

cloud out there. Maybe one or two

flurries but nothing more than that.

You saw couple of flakes of snow. In

the centre of London, temperatures

around freezing. Outside of town,

round minus four Celsius. It means

tomorrow morning will be very chilly

indeed and it will start relatively

bright. Then you have basically a

very nice day on the way. There

could be some flurries way towards

the east of London. Some parts of

the country are in for some snow.

But that's not never will reach

London. So tomorrow it is going to

be a relatively bright day. Clouding

over later in the day and feeling

really chilly. Temperatures in some

areas could be a couple of degrees

above freezing during the day. I

will show you the weather for

tomorrow night as well. Some flakes

of snow. Watch out called the man

gets. Can it get any more blue?

Temperatures in central London will

be below freezing, even -6 outside

of time Dummett ten. In the middle

of London, Inveraray only dropped

below freezing. -- it very rarely

will drop below freezing. As we go

into Thursday, it looks like the

weather will change a bit. Wind is

blowing off the Atlantic, more

clouds in the sky and probably been

around as well. Temperatures getting

back to round about seven Celsius.

Two cold nights and then it turns

that little bit milder. I think we

can get through with that.

We can, although you did

say -6! The main headlines...

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator,

Michel Barnier, has warned

that the government's decision

to rule out being a member of any

kind of customs union,

will result in trade barriers.

A man with Asperger's syndrome

accused of hacking into US

government computers has won a legal

battle against his extradition.

Lawyers for Lauri Love from Suffolk

argued he might kill himself

if he was sent to America

to stand trial.

A BBC London investigation has

exposed rogue beauticians in the

capital undertaking illegal teeth

whitening treatments which dentists

say can leave patients in crippling

pain if they go wrong.

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