Daily Echo | Fluoride

Decision-making on fluoride was ‘terrible’

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:10:00 +0000

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

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:04:06 +0100

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

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:53:01 +0100

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.

Councillors urged to make fluoride pledge

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:49:46 +0100

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'

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:59:25 +0100

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'

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:30:00 +0000

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

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:40:00 +0000

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 challenge rejected in the High Court

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:30:04 +0000

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

Fluoride decision 'within weeks'

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:42:10 +0000

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'

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:23:16 +0000

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'

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:53:16 +0000

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

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:34:47 +0000

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

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:40:00 +0000

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'

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:42:09 +0100

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

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:11:05 +0100

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

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:40:00 +0100

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?

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:20:36 +0100

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

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:40:00 +0100

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

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:10:00 +0100

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

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0100

THE Government has been accused to abandoning a campaign to stop fluoride being added to Hampshire water supplies.