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The Daily Echo can today reveal the areas inside and outside Southampton that would receive mass-medicated water if city health chiefs get their way. (See today’s Daily Echo to see the areas affected). About two-thirds of people within the city boundaries are set to be given topped-up levels of fluoride in a bid to improve […]

THE company that could be forced to add fluoride to Hampshire residents’ tap water has refused to tell the Daily Echo exactly where the medicated supplies would go. Southern Water says it is referring all requests for information on the proposed fluoridation scheme to South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA), because it doesn’t want to […]

HEALTH chiefs have released shocking new pictures of Southampton youngsters’ rotten teeth as the debate over adding fluoride to water supplies hots up. In one of the images, the tiny mouth of a three-year-old child is filled with blackened stumps of decaying and diseased teeth. Dentists say distressing sights like these, which highlight the extent […]

ADDING fluoride to Southampton’s tap water would mean thousands of people living outside the city receiving the medication – even though they do not need it. The Daily Echo can reveal that more than 36,000 residents in Eastleigh, Totton, Hamble and Netley will also get top-ups of the chemical if the controversial plan goes ahead. […]

Today the Daily Echo launches the great Southampton fluoride debate. It comes after the first steps towards adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water were agreed by health bosses. They have decided to launch a £178,000 public consultation on whether to go ahead with the hugely-controversial proposal. Those who support the plan claim it would […]

HEALTH CHIEFS are today one step closer to adding fluoride to Southampton’s tap water supply. They have agreed to launch a £178,000 three-month public consultation into the controversial plan. Those supporting the scheme say that it could be the solution to the city’s poor dental health record. But campaigners have vowed to fight the plan […]

CONTROVERSIAL plans to add fluoride to Southampton’s tap water have today taken a major step forward. Health chiefs have agreed to launch a public consultation gauging opinion of the city’s residents on proposals that would see 67 per cent of them receiving fluoridated water. Southampton has one of the poorest records for dental health among […]

THE views of Bolton residents on the issue of adding fluoride to the town’s water supply are to be sent to Whitehall. MP David Crausby is asking his constituents to put forward their opinions on the issue. Every household in his Bolton North-east constituency will this month receive a copy of Mr Crausby’s Parliamentary Report […]

THE Green Party is campaigning against the addition of flouride to water supplies. Advocates of flouridisation say it will help to turn around poor dental health as flouride, despite effectively being a poison, can help to strengthen teeth. But the Green Party says adding it to the water supply robs people of the freedom to […]

CONTROVERSIAL plans to add flouride to Southampton’s water supply have been condemned by a green MEP. Just weeks after Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted water fluoridation would benefit the city’s residents, Green MEP Dr Caroline Lucas, pictured above right, paid a personal visit to health chiefs to condemn the proposals. In February Health Secretary Alan […]