Brit flies 1,000 miles for date with Polish dentist

The advent of budget flights to Eastern Europe has opened up some unlikely opportunities for Brits looking to cut costs.

Though many travellers have exploited new routes to the likes of Wroclaw, Tallinn and Ljubljana for cheap holidays, one lady in Nottingham had a different idea altogether.

Jetting off to Lodz in Poland from Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Sonja McCarthy admitted she wasn't looking to take in the city's fine architecture.

Instead, she was making the thousand-mile journey to get dental treatment.

In a bid to sidestep the cost of UK dentists, Sonja McCarthy was willing to fly to Eastern Europe to be seen by a Polish dentist instead.

"The return flight was 30 and the dental treatment itself 20, which is 50 and yet it's over 100 for the treatment alone in Nottingham and I can't afford that," she told the BBC.

And it seems more and more Brits are willing to travel hundreds of miles in the air just to cut down on cost or hassle.

Mary Page, a UK schoolteacher who moved to Prague last year, still takes to the skies every week to reach her job in Norfolk, via Stansted.