0:00:00 > 0:00:00prospect of Britain remaining in any type of customs union after
0:00:14 > 0:00:19Welcome to BBC London News - I'm Victoria Hollins.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22An undercover investigation by BBC London has exposed rogue beauticians
0:00:22 > 0:00:24undertaking illegal teeth whitening treatments which can leave patients
0:00:24 > 0:00:31in crippling pain if they go wrong.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Only dentists and professionals like hygienists can legally perform
0:00:33 > 0:00:36the cosmetic procedure on customers.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Guy Lynn has this exclusive report.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Teeth whitening is one of the UK's most popular cosmetic procedures.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47After a series of treatments patients can have
0:00:47 > 0:00:50dramatically whiter teeth.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53But as it's a medical procedure, only a dentist or a regulated dental
0:00:53 > 0:00:58professional can legally do it on customers.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59BBC London went undercover to find rogue beauticians
0:00:59 > 0:01:07offering treatments.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Such as Ashleigh Smith near Paddington, who charges £100,
0:01:09 > 0:01:15implies she's qualified...
0:01:15 > 0:01:21Yeah, I am trained - I am qualified, yeah.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Her only qualification is a one-day course with a tooth whitening
0:01:23 > 0:01:28firm, yet she illegally performs dental procedures.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31If you're seeing somebody on the high street that's
0:01:31 > 0:01:33attended a one-day course - and putting that into perspective
0:01:33 > 0:01:36dentists attend a five-year training programme in order to qualify -
0:01:36 > 0:01:39you're placing yourself in harm's way.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42The whitening kits and toothpaste you can buy on the high street can
0:01:42 > 0:01:44only contain a maximum of 0.01% of the bleaching agent
0:01:44 > 0:01:50hydrogen peroxide.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Anything stronger, up to 6%, must be prescribed by a dentist.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55And these pictures show why.
0:01:55 > 0:02:01Used incorrectly, it can cause burns, blisters and gum damage.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Fran Lowe from West Ham is no dentist.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07But this untrained beautician carries out dental
0:02:07 > 0:02:09procedures in her bedroom.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12So what are you doing them, why do you need to do this?
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Don't touch that, because if it gets on your hands it
0:02:15 > 0:02:16will burn your hands.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Oh, is that the hydrogen peroxide?
0:02:18 > 0:02:19And tells us what strength hydrogen peroxide she'll
0:02:19 > 0:02:20used to whiten teeth.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22It does have hydrogen peroxide in it?
0:02:22 > 0:02:25It does, yeah, 25%.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27By using whitener more than four times the strength
0:02:27 > 0:02:29allowed for a dentist, she's breaking the law -
0:02:29 > 0:02:30and knows it.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Obviously, you know, in all honesty, you know,
0:02:32 > 0:02:34you're not supposed to use what I use.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35It's for the dentist, isn't it?
0:02:35 > 0:02:38That's why you pay £300 to go and have you teeth
0:02:38 > 0:02:39done at the dentist.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43So will she go ahead?
0:02:43 > 0:02:45First she gives us a gumshield.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Bite down now - that's it...
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Then she applies hydrogen peroxide.
0:02:48 > 0:02:49What's that?
0:02:49 > 0:02:51It's just a peroxide.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Usually she'd leave it on for well over an hour,
0:02:54 > 0:03:04but we've taken dental advice, and abort straightaway.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05You want to take it off?
0:03:05 > 0:03:06You do?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08After filming our researcher has a full dental checkup,
0:03:09 > 0:03:10and gets the all clear.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13So in this situation you can season quite bad burns from...
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Ben Atkins treats people after they've had botched hydrogen
0:03:15 > 0:03:16peroxide operations.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19We showed him our undercover footage, and he says
0:03:19 > 0:03:23it's the worst he's seen.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25It's putting a patient's life at risk doing dental procedure
0:03:25 > 0:03:27is not in the dental surgery.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32I see the other side when things have gone wrong and patients
0:03:32 > 0:03:35come into my surgery, and I've got to deal with it,
0:03:35 > 0:03:36and seeing this, it's astounding.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37It shouldn't happen.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Ashleigh Smith said she used a safe non-peroxide product,
0:03:39 > 0:03:43but ignored all our requests for a response.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Fran Lowe denied buying, storing or using peroxide
0:03:46 > 0:03:47gels on customers.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51She claims she said she did in order to get a sale.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54She then said that she wasn't aware that what she was doing was illegal,
0:03:54 > 0:03:59and now says that she's stopped doing teeth whitening altogether.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02She also sold us a syringe with 700 times the strength peroxide that can
0:04:02 > 0:04:04be purchased on the high streets.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07We'll be handing back to the authorities.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09And during our investigation, we heard of many other
0:04:09 > 0:04:10beauticians ignoring warnings, playing roulette
0:04:10 > 0:04:11with patients' safety.
0:04:11 > 0:04:18Guy Lynn, BBC London News.
0:04:18 > 0:04:24You can see more on that on Inside Out London, tonight at 7:30pm on BBC
0:04:24 > 0:04:26One.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Work is due to get under way today on a major
0:04:29 > 0:04:34redevelopment of Brixton Arches.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Network Rail insists the scheme will benefit the entire community.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38But some local campaigners fear local businesses
0:04:38 > 0:04:40are being forced out, and held their latest protest
0:04:40 > 0:04:44yesterday to try to block the work.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48The community will no longer be here if this development goes ahead. This
0:04:48 > 0:04:51is the backbone of the Brixton community, that has served this
0:04:51 > 0:04:55community for almost a century.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Workers on South Western railway are to take industrial action
0:04:57 > 0:05:00later this month in the long running dispute over the role
0:05:00 > 0:05:01of guards on trains.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Union members will refuse to work any rest days
0:05:03 > 0:05:04from February 16th to the 19th.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07The company, which runs services to and from London Waterloo -
0:05:07 > 0:05:09the UK's busiest station - is one of five operators involved
0:05:09 > 0:05:13in rows over staffing which have led to a series of strikes stretching
0:05:13 > 0:05:19back almost two years.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21It's 100 years tomorrow since the bill was passed
0:05:21 > 0:05:23giving some women the vote for the first time.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Many women living in London were still in service
0:05:26 > 0:05:27and they were relying on suffragettes and men
0:05:28 > 0:05:30in Parliament to fight their cause.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Sarah Harris has been talking to some of those whose lives
0:05:33 > 0:05:38were beginning to change.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42Now living in a Surrey care home, Rose was born in 1914 and was told
0:05:42 > 0:05:45by her parents that being a servant was the only career open to her.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50But she had other ideas.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I didn't want to go into service, no way.
0:05:53 > 0:06:00So I gathered my things and I got on a bus and I left home.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04I wasn't going to be anybody's lackey.
0:06:04 > 0:06:12I was worth more than that.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Rose trained to be a midwife, encouraged by the bill making it
0:06:14 > 0:06:16possible for some women to vote.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19But there were still many rules that didn't apply to the men.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21How were women treated if they got married in the job?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Oh, you couldn't.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25So many were married and they had their wedding rings
0:06:25 > 0:06:31round their neck, hidden.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Marches demanding equality were regularly held on the streets
0:06:35 > 0:06:37of London but in Parliament, protesters were relying
0:06:37 > 0:06:40on the men to change the law.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Conservative politician Baroness Jenkin campaigns
0:06:43 > 0:06:46for more women MPs.
0:06:46 > 0:06:52She is the great granddaughter of Willoughby Dickinson,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55who introduced the first women's suffrage bill in 1907 and every year
0:06:55 > 0:06:59until he lost his own St Pancras seat in 1918.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02He had two very clever sisters, and one was a very eminent
0:07:02 > 0:07:09doctor who was born, I think, in 1958.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12And she was a radiologist and her husband was a very eminent
0:07:12 > 0:07:14doctor and, in fact, they set up I think six hospitals
0:07:14 > 0:07:18in Serbia during the First World War and he looked at his two sisters
0:07:18 > 0:07:21in awe and he thought, how is it that I as a man
0:07:21 > 0:07:23have the vote and these two sisters of mine don't?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26So I think that was what was behind his campaigning.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28The bill turned out to be only the beginning.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30All women over 21 had to wait another decade
0:07:30 > 0:07:31until they got the vote.
0:07:31 > 0:07:38Sarah Harris, BBC London news.
0:07:38 > 0:07:44It is very cold outside, and was this morning. Let's get a check on
0:07:44 > 0:07:49the weather with Kate.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Good afternoon.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Well, it's a very cold day really across-the-board.
0:07:52 > 0:08:00We woke up to a widespread frost and some flurries of snow as well.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03One or two showers creeping in from the east but also sunny
0:08:03 > 0:08:06spells, so there is a bit more ploughed through the afternoon.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09It should stay mostly dry and we still should see one or two
0:08:09 > 0:08:10glimmers of sunshine as well.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12The one thing that stays constant is the temperature.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14It is going to remain cold.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16A north-easterly breeze blowing through, maybe one or two showers,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19which could fall of the wintry but in the most part,
0:08:19 > 0:08:22it is dry, some brighter spells mixed in as well.
0:08:22 > 0:08:22The temperature, though, is struggling.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Two to four Celsius as a maximum.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Factor in that breeze - it's not very strong
0:08:26 > 0:08:28but it is going to remain cold.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Overnight tonight, it is predominantly dry.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31One or two showers potentially out towards the east.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Clear spells and the temperature dropping.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36The wind veers round from the North, again still very like.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38The wind veers round from the North, again still very light.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40The minimum temperature between minus two and zero,
0:08:40 > 0:08:42so another widespread, sharp frost for tomorrow morning.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Some bright spells around, some patchy cloud.
0:08:44 > 0:08:50It looks like it is going to stay reasonably dry all day
0:08:50 > 0:08:52with the showers staying away in the east, so dry
0:08:52 > 0:08:55sunshine until the afternoon, then we will start to see more cloud
0:08:55 > 0:08:57whittling down from the North.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Again, cold, three to four Celsius the maximum in the northerly winds.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03It is not until tomorrow evening towards the rush hour that we could
0:09:03 > 0:09:06see a bit of snowfall making its way on that cloud through the first part
0:09:06 > 0:09:07of the evening.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Steadily it will move south, so there is potential
0:09:09 > 0:09:11for a bit of snow.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Temperatures down to zero, so a cold start again on
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Wednesday.
0:09:15 > 0:09:24Right, that's about it from me. Your 6:30pm evening programme will be
0:09:24 > 0:09:30later with Riz. There is more on the website and a Facebook page, but for
0:09:30 > 0:09:32now from all of us, have a lovely afternoon, whatever