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TOP LEVEL talks will be held next week as council chiefs join forces to try and bring an end to the fluoride saga once and for all. Leader of Southampton City Council Simon Letts will meet with leader of Hampshire County Council, Roy Perry, on Tuesday to discuss the fate of the controversial scheme to […]

Two council leaders are joining forces to fight a scheme which would see fluoride added to water supplies in Southampton and parts of Hampshire. NHS chiefs agreed the move in 2009 but Public Health England (PHE) and Southern Water have yet to finalise details of the scheme. PHE said it was still committed to a […]

AN anti-fluoridation campaigner, who will talk in Bedford tonight (June 4), has warned of the dangers of the mineral in water supplies. Fluoridation has been a prominent issue in Bedfordshire lately as we revealed in March that the fluoride supply has been cut off in the county since 2009 without the public being told. Dr […]

THE public will decide on fluoride. That is among the pledges of the new man at the helm of Southampton City Council. Personally, Cllr Simon Letts is in favour of adding the chemical to the tap water of 200,000 people in the city and surrounding areas in a bid to improve the health of children’s […]

CAMPAIGNERS against water fluoridation in Hampshire are planning a fresh legal battle in the courts, the Daily Echo can reveal. In the latest salvo of their long running battle, Hampshire Against Fluoridation (HAF) claim they have found a loophole which could block plans to add fluoride to tap water. Despite losing a legal challenge last […]

Angry anti-fluoride protestors have taken to the streets of Southampton and vowed to step up their fight. Yesterday more than a hundred people made their message loud and clear as they waved placards and shouted ‘no’ to water fluoridation. Demonstrators gathered outside the Guildhall Square in Southampton as part of their long running battle against […]

WAVING placards and shouting their slogans, more than a hundred people made their message loud and clear: no to water fluoridation. Demonstrators were gathering outside the Guildhall Square in Southampton this afternoon as part of their long running battle against plans to add the chemical to drinking water in Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams. […]

CAMPAIGNERS fighting against plans to put fluoride in Hampshire’s water supplies are turning up the pressure on council chiefs to axe the project. Hampshire Against Fluoridation will hold a demonstration outside Southampton City Council offices in the Civic Centre tomorrow at 12.30pm. Since the Southern Health Authority was scrapped at the end of March, Public […]

ON APRIL 16, I had an an open letter published in the Daily Echo, asking the newly formed body Public Health England to respond, explaining how they arrived at the decision to continue with the scheme to mass medicate the local population with fluoride in our tap water. Bearing in mind the importance of this […]

Fluoride will be added to tap water in thousands of Hampshire homes – unless the scheme’s opponents find a last-ditch solution. Despite the demise of the organisation which voted through the controversial scheme, its successor Public Health England says it will carry out fluoridation affecting about 200,000 people. Its opponents, including local councils, are currently […]