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Fluoride hearing is delayed until 2011
10:11am Tuesday 31st August 2010
No decision on the fluoridation of water in Hampshire can be taken until next year because a legal bid to block it has been delayed again, the Daily Echo can reveal.
Fluoride plans for Southampton could be scrapped
5:40pm Tuesday 24th August 2010
PLANS to fluoridate Hampshire’s water could be axed as health chiefs lose powers to approve the controversial scheme.
What is happening to the fluoride scheme?
11:20am Saturday 7th August 2010
HEALTH chiefs had hoped fluoride would be in Hampshire’s water by the end of this year, but the scheme has been on hold since last June because of a legal challenge.
Tory MP’s anger at fluoride silence
2:40pm Thursday 22nd July 2010
ANOTHER Tory Hampshire MP has attacked his own party for failing to deliver its promises to change the law on fluoridation.
Call for Clegg to scrap SHA’s laws over fluoride
10:10am Thursday 8th July 2010
HAMPSHIRE campaigners are calling on the Deputy Prime Minister to scrap the law governing the way fluoride can be added to water supplies.
Anger as government 'goes back' on fluoride pledge
5:00pm Monday 5th July 2010
THE Government has been accused to abandoning a campaign to stop fluoride being added to Hampshire water supplies.
Leader calls on new health secretary to stop fluoride plans
6:20pm Thursday 10th June 2010
HAMPSHIRE’S top politician is urging the new health secretary to step in to stop fluoride being added to the water supply of almost 200,000 homes.
Brown washes hands of calls for fluoride vote
9:48am Tuesday 27th April 2010
Labour sought to give its campaign for re-election in Southampton a boost with a visit from PM Gordon Brown.
Ditch MPs who back fluoride
11:02am Thursday 15th April 2010
FRIENDS of the Earth has called on voters to reject candidates who support water fluoridation in Hampshire.
The people demand to have their say
1:20pm Monday 22nd March 2010
Southampton city councillors to call on health authority for a public vote on fluoride
Call for fluoride referendum
4:21pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
SOUTHAMPTON civic chiefs have called for people to be given their say on controversial plans to fluoridate Hampshire's tap water.
Fluoride protestors demo at key meeting
2:00pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
ANTI-fluoride campaigners have been demonstrating against the controversial plans ahead of a council vote that could call for the public to be given a final say on the scheme.
Open letter on fluoride to Strategic Health Authority
2:32pm Friday 26th February 2010
AN OPEN letter from anti-fluoride protestors to the board members of the South Central Strategic Health Authority.
List of signatories against fluoridation of Southampton's water
2:42pm Friday 26th February 2010
Full list of the signatories of Hampshire Against Fluoridation's open letter to South Central Strategic Health Authority.
Fluoride protestors aim to have law overturned
6:40pm Wednesday 17th February 2010
Hampshire Against Fluoridation is writing to the 220 politicians as part of their latest battle over plans to add fluoride to Southampton's water.
Medicine claim in fluoride fight
11:55am Thursday 31st December 2009
CAMPAIGNERS have lodged a new bid to have fluoride banned from Southampton’s tap water because it is not licensed as a medicine.
Conservatives pledge review over fluoride
2:29pm Tuesday 6th October 2009
A TORY Government would insist on public backing for fluoride being added to Hampshire water supplies, the Daily Echo can reveal.
Courts to rule on fluoride decision
7:30pm Monday 7th September 2009
ONE of Britain’s top judges has given the go-ahead for plans to fluoridate Hampshire water supplies to be challenged in Court.
Ombudsman: we won’t look at fluoride verdict
9:20am Friday 24th July 2009
HEALTH regulators will not scrutinise the controversial decision to fluoridate Hampshire water supplies.
Health chiefs 'would ignore fluoride referendum result'
11:31am Monday 20th July 2009
HEALTH authority bosses have said a huge scale vote would not alter the outcome of their decision to add fluoride to drinking water in Hampshire.
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