Controversial plans to put fluoride into the water of 200,000 Hampshire people could be sunk without trace, the Daily Echo can reveal today.

Council chiefs in Southampton and Hampshire believe a contract blunder means the scheme agreed by health bosses in 2009 is no longer valid.

If the Government confirms its suspicions, the five-year battle against fluoridation will be over.

The news has been welcome today by anti-fluoride campaigners.

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Daily Echo: Hampshire Against Fluoride protest outside the Civic Centre