A family say they had no option but to break coronavirus lockdown rules and make a 400-mile round trip for emergency dental surgery after the dad's tooth pain became unbearable.
Plympton dad-of-three Daniel Duckett had a filling done a month and a half before the pandemic took hold in the UK, but recently began experiencing pain in the filled tooth.
He and wife Samantha tried calling 111, the NHS' non-emergency line, for help but it was a frustrating experience. They rang the number twice a day for six days in a row but got no closer to solving the problem. "Whenever we rang in the night we had the same answer, that there was nobody there and we should call back at 8am which we did," Samantha told PlymouthLive.