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A 50-year-old medical controversy is about to be re-ignited. The government is considering the introduction of further fluoridation schemes throughout the country. To facilitate that, the Water Act passed last November indemnified water companies from civil or criminal actions as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies. Fluoridation was first advanced in the […]

Campaigners from Greater Manchester have reacted angrily to the news that Andy Burnham MP for Leigh has accepted an invitation to become a Vice-President of the British Fluoridation Society. The MP has led the campaign in the House of Commons to push through legislation which gives new powers to strategic health authorities to instruct water […]

A LEADING Pendle environmental campaigner will attempt to persuade a national pressure group to back an anti-fluoride campaign. The Pendle Friends of the Earth (FoE) group is to second a motion to oppose compulsory water fluoridisation at the FoE annual conference in Leicester in August. Brian Jackson of Duke Street in Winewall co-ordinator of the […]

HYNDBURN Council is insisting water in the borough should not be fluoridated. The authority’s cabinet yesterday reaffirmed its stance adopted in 1987. The move follows the Water Act 2003 which when operational will change the powers for adding fluoride to drinking water. Pro-campaigners argue it will help improve dental health in the North-West which has […]

A Campaigner fighting the introduction of fluoride to water supplies says he will risk prosecution to protect his human rights. Ray Oldacre, of Kingsley Road, Stafford, claims that the introduction of fluoride would contravene his human rights and has told Severn Trent Water that he will refuse to pay his water bill should fluoride be […]

To highlight to the public the dangers of fluoridation in water, Jean Lambert MEP will be visting Barnet this Saturday . Jean will be joined by Noel Lynch, Green London Assembly Member and Miranda Dunn, Green London Assembly candidate for Barnet and Camden. They will be supporting Ashley Gunstock, actor and Green Party candidate for […]

Any attempt to fluoridate Sussex’s water supply will be bitterly opposed a campaign group has warned. A public meeting organised by Gary Kemp of Brighton Hove and Mid Sussex Friends of the Earth attracted dozens of people concerned about possible long-term plans for Britain’s drinking water. The Government has given Strategic Health Authorities the power […]

The Green Party is encouraging Stroud residents to make a stand against the proposed fluoridation of water supplies. Almost 2,000 yellow postcards stating opposition to the process and addressed to Severn Trent have been handed out to local residents over the last few weeks. Green Party spokesperson Phillip Booth said: “To medicate people without their […]

MORE than 80 per cent of people have said no to the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. That is the overwhelming result from a massive county-wide survey. The news has come as a blow to public health bosses who believe fluoride has the potential to improve child dental health – but anti-fluoride campaigners […]

ANTI-fluoridation campaigners are claiming an early victory after Bolton Town Hall chiefs vowed to oppose plans to add a controversial chemical to tap water. Councillors voted to support a resolution to resist any attempts by the strategic health authority to move ahead with the plan to add fluoride being mixed with water supplies. They said […]