DEFIANT anti-fluoride campaigners have vowed not to let the loss of a legal bid to stop the controversial scheme prove the end of their fight. Hampshire Against fluoridation (HAF) is to force a debate by councillors in Southampton in the hope that they will oppose the plans. The group says that it has collected about […]
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Southampton: Fluoride to be added to Southampton’s water ‘in months’
DISAPPOINTED campaigners admitted last night they have reached the “end of the road” in their legal bid to stop controversial plans to add fluoride to Hampshire’s tap water. A High Court judge rejected a final appeal against the decision not to allow a judicial review of claims health bosses failed to properly assess key arguments […]
Southampton: South central Strategic Health Authority praised by British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry
HEALTH bosses have been praised for their decision to plough ahead with controversial plans to fluoridate Hampshire tap water. Members of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) enthusiastically backed South Central Strategic Health Authority’s move to work towards adding fluoride to the water supplies delivered to nearly 200,000 people. The organisation […]
Should we drug the drinking water? Adding lithium to the taps ‘could lower suicide rates’
Lithium has been heralded by some experts as the next potential flouride, after scientists found suicide rates were lower in areas where the drinking water had higher concentrations of the element. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna compared the suicide rates in different regions of Austria with the natural lithium concentrations in the drinking […]
Coventry: Protesters hold public meeting over fluoride in water
PROTESTERS are mounting a fight against adding fluoride to the water supply. A public meeting has been called tonight in Coventry to debate the issue after a petition with nearly 300 signatures was handed to the city council. Joy Warren, a member of Coventry Friends of the Earth, is spearheading the campaign and wants to […]
U.K. Parliament – Q&A on fluoridation
Fluoride Dr Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether it is his policy that future decisions about the fluoridation of water supplies shall be taken by elected local authorities following the abolition of strategic health authorities. [52429] Anne Milton: Yes. We propose that local authorities should conduct consultations and ascertain public […]
Southampton: Appeal over fluoride decision
THE controversial decision to fluoridate Hampshire tap water will go back to the High Court later this year. A date in June has been set for an application by Southampton mum Gerri Milner to appeal against part of the ruling that South Central Strategic Health Authority was right to approve the scheme. Since winning the […]
Southampton. Fluoride: By gum it’s complicated
NEWS that health bosses are determined to go ahead with plans to add fluoride to the Southampton city regional water supply should not surprise us one drop. The fact the South West Strategic Health Authority (SHA) has already fought and won one highly expensive legal battle at tax-payers’ expense to stay on course with their […]
Southampton: ‘We’d throw fluoridation out with SHA’
HEALTH chiefs are wasting time and money pressing ahead with plans to fluoridate water supplies – because council bosses would be able to simply switch it off again once they are handed public health powers, it was claimed last night. South Central Strategic Health Authority has insisted it wants to go ahead with the scheme […]
Southampton: Fluoride will be added to Southampton’s water, despite protests
HEALTH bosses were last night accused of arrogance after revealing they are ploughing ahead with controversial plans to add fluoride to water supplies. South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) wants to bring in the scheme that will affect 200,000 people in Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams as soon as possible even though it is […]