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DAVID Blaine suspended himself in an oversized phone box for 44 days without food. The might of his so-called mystical and magic powers could not allow him to complete his feat without daily supplies of water. Those three tiny atoms – two of hydrogen and one of oxygen – fuel every living cell of our […]

MEMBERS of Parliament – including nine from the Merseyside and Cheshire area – recently voted to take fluoridisation of our tap water a step closer. The vote gives Strategic Health Authorities the power to ask water firms to add fluoride to our water. The British Dental Association, apparently wanting to put themselves out of business, […]

STRONG city council opposition to fluoride being added to York’s water supply will be sent directly to Prime Minister Tony Blair. City of York Council chief executive David Atkinson will write to Mr Blair and Secretary of State for Health John Reid outlining the council’s concerns over fluoride in tap water. York’s water supply is […]

MPs tonight backed moves to let local communities decide whether to have fluoride added to their tap water. A bid to block the fluoridation of water was defeated, on a free vote, by 284 to 181, a majority of 103. The issue aroused strong passions in report stage debate on the Water Bill and could […]

Moves to make it easier for fluoride to be added to drinking water in England and Wales have got the backing of MPs. Opponents warned this amounted to “mass medication” but a vote for a total ban on fluoridation was lost by 284 to 181. Water companies have been allowed to add fluoride to supplies […]

Households throughout England and Wales could receive a dose of fluoride when they turn on the tap after the Government pushed through a measure to improve the teeth of children who do not have healthy diets. Ministers steered through a change in the law to make it easier to medicate drinking water and force water […]

DESPITE Government concessions to opponents of water fluoridation, Leominster MP Bill Wiggin has expressed concern that measures do not go far enough to prevent “forced medication” of the public. Mr Wiggin, Shadow Minister for the Environment, won a victory over the details of water fluoridation in Clause 61 of the Water Bill, as the Government […]

Hundreds of people have backed a campaign in Shropshire to fight moves to put fluoride in the water supply. Whixall Women’s Institute has been concerned about the health implications and had launched a protest against the proposals. A petition was launched to support the cause and two Women’s Institute members took on the tough challenge […]

Sweeping new measures to allow fluoride to be added to large parts of Britain’s water supply are set to provoke a huge political row amid fears that ‘mass medication’ may harm children and lead to more tooth disease. Ministers will try to force the new Water Bill through the House of Commons this week before […]

OPPONENTS of plans to put health chiefs in charge of adding fluoride to public water supplies are preparing for a legal challenge after admitting that they will lose a Commons vote next week. MPs are to be allowed a free vote on legislation to make it easier to fluoridate water supplies by transferring the decision […]