Tooth decay warning
THE number of hospital admissions for tooth decay among five to nine-year-olds has risen for the second consecutive year, new figures show.
Children of this age accounted for more than 26,000 admissions as a result of the dental problem last year, according to NHS Digital data.
The Royal College of Surgeons said it was “disgraceful” that so many young children require tooth extraction and called for parents to ensure they maintain good oral health. DAVID HOCKNEY has unveiled a stained glass window tribute to the Queen at Westminster Abbey saying, “I hope she’ll like it”.
Spanning over eight metres high, the new work is the 81-year-old’s first in stained glass. Designed on his iPad and set in Hockney’s Yorkshire birthplace, it reflects the Queen’s love for, and connection with, the countryside.
Hockney was commissioned to create the window to celebrate the Queen’s reign.
The brightly-coloured abstract window of yellow, red, blue, pink, orange and greens, features hawthorn blossom and stands out in its historic setting. Hockney said that the iPad was “a natural thing to use” because it is “back-lit like a window”.
The artist, who recently broke his own auction record with a £21.1 million painting, said that designing his first stained glass window “was a challenge”.
Hockney once said that he turned down the chance to paint the Queen because he was “very busy painting England actually, her country”.
Asked whether he had any response to the window from the monarch, who has not yet seen the finished result, he said: “Not yet, but I hope she’ll like it. I’m sure she will.”