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Demonstration to put pressure on council over fluoridating water

11:30am Friday 10th May 2013

CAMPAIGNERS fighting against plans to put fluoride in Hampshire’s water supplies are turning up the pressure on council chiefs to axe the project.

Fluoride WILL be added to Hampshire tap water

4:00am Monday 8th April 2013

Fluoride will be added to tap water in thousands of Hampshire homes – unless the scheme’s opponents find a last-ditch solution.

Councils 'will be able to turn off fluoride'

4:00am Tuesday 19th March 2013

COUNCILS will be able to turn off fluoride from Hampshire’s water supplies if people don’t want it, new Government guidelines say.

One pint of fluoridated water per day 'could be risk to children'

10:32am Thursday 17th January 2013

IT IS the most controversial public health issue to hit Hampshire for decades.

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Faith groups unite to fight controversial fluoridation plans

3:00pm Tuesday 8th January 2013

FAITH groups across Southampton are joining forces to battle against controversial plans to put fluoride in the water.

Council boss admits there are no funds to fight fluoride plans

8:29am Monday 7th January 2013

THE race has begun to put fluoride into Hampshire water – even though most people may not want it.

Fluoride gets green light after final challenge is thrown out

8:17am Friday 2nd November 2012

THE last formal attempt to stop health chiefs putting fluoride in Hampshire tap water has been rejected, the Daily Echo can reveal.

The Great Fluoride Debate

Government unveils scheme to avoid costly fluoride legal fights

5:20pm Wednesday 5th September 2012

THE Government has unveiled plans to avoid a repeat of the costly legal battle that blighted plans to add fluoride to Hampshire’s water supply.

Leading the battle to stop fluoride plans

10:27am Monday 28th May 2012

HE’S the man who will now lead the fight to stop fluoride being added to tap water in and around Southampton.

Anti-fluoride campaigners continue fight

9:50am Friday 25th May 2012

ANTI-fluoride campaigners are holding the AGM of their action group tomorrow.

Fluoridation may spread outside consultation area

11:40am Wednesday 22nd February 2012

Water bosses have admitted fluoride might have to be added to the tap water of people who have never been asked their opinion on the controversial process if the scheme is to work, the Daily Echo can reveal.

Fluoride - in depth

Decision-making on fluoride was ‘terrible’

9:10am Saturday 10th December 2011

Southampton residents are having fluoride put in their water against their “expressed wishes”, the House of Lords has been told.

Councillors due to vote on fluoride

10:04am Wednesday 14th September 2011

Southampton councillors were today due to vote on calls for them to show their opposition to controversial plans to fluoridate the city’s water supplies.

Calls to bin fluoride plans after northern plans are scrapped

5:53pm Tuesday 13th September 2011

ANTI-fluoride campaigners have demanded that health chiefs scrap plans to add the chemical to Hampshire tap water, after a similar scheme elsewhere in the country was abandoned.

Fluoride - in depth

Councillors urged to make fluoride pledge

5:49pm Friday 9th September 2011

COUNCILLORS in Southampton are being urged to vow to oppose controversial plans to put fluoride in Hampshire tap water.

Fluoride to be added to water 'in months'

4:59pm Friday 17th June 2011

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.

'We'd throw fluoridation out with SHA'

9:30am Thursday 24th March 2011

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.

Legal challenge to fluoride ruling

11:40am Saturday 19th February 2011

THE High Court ruling upholding health chiefs’ controversial decision to fluoridate Hampshire water supplies is to be legally challenged, the Daily Echo can reveal.

Fluoride Debate - In Depth

Fluoride challenge rejected in the High Court

2:30pm Friday 11th February 2011

THE legal challenge against the South Central Strategic Health Authority plan to add fluoride to Southampton's water has failed

Fluoride decision 'within weeks'

9:42am Friday 21st January 2011

A HIGH Court judge has said it will be weeks before he reveals whether the decision to add fluoride to water supplies in Hampshire was legal.

Fluoride opponents' arguments were 'not evaluated'

5:23pm Wednesday 19th January 2011

HEALTH bosses failed to properly evaluate key arguments against fluoridating water before approving a controversial scheme for Hampshire, a court heard.

Fluoridation plans 'need backing of residents'

12:53pm Wednesday 19th January 2011

GOVERNMENT ministers gave repeated assurances to parliament that fluoridation schemes would only go ahead if they were backed by affected residents, a court heard.

Fluoride row reaches High Court

11:34am Wednesday 19th January 2011

A LANDMARK court case that will decide the future of a controversial scheme to fluoridate Hampshire tap water was due to start today.

Fluoride fight could go to the government

11:40am Tuesday 18th January 2011

COUNCIL bosses could call on the Government to step in to stop health chiefs adding fluoride to Hampshire water supplies in the months before their powers disappear.

Fluoridation is 'politics not science'

7:42am Tuesday 14th September 2010

THE case for fluoride is based on politics not science, a US chemistry professor told campaigners trying to stop health chiefs adding it to the tap water of 200,000 homes.

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 Debate - In Depth

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.

Fluoride Debate - In Depth

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

Have your say

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 debate - In depth

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.

Fluoride Debate - In Depth

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.

Fluoride Debate - In Depth

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.

Councils to vote on fluoride poll

10:14am Tuesday 14th July 2009

TWO local authorities could be set to add their voices to the growing clamour for a referendum on controversial plans to fluoridate Hampshire tap water.

Fluoride Debate - In Depth

Gidley backs calls for a vote on fluoride

10:40am Monday 29th June 2009

The people should have the final say. That is the message from a Hampshire MP backing calls for the public to be given a vote on plans to fluoridate Hampshire tap water.

Fluoride Debate - In Depth

Daily Echo backs calls for a referendum on fluoride issue

3:10pm Saturday 27th June 2009

GIVE us a vote. The Daily Echo today backs calls for a referendum on controversial plans to fluoridate Hampshire’s tap water.

MPs’ anger over fluoride decision

9:10am Friday 26th June 2009

TWO Hampshire MPs have reacted angrily to the Government’s decision to ignore a 15,300-signature petition from anti-fluoride protesters.

The Fluoride Debate - In Depth

Anger as MPs say no to fluoride review

2:50pm Thursday 25th June 2009

IT was a plea from 15,000 residents – but one that looks set to be ignored.

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