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Liz Vaughan

Liz is a long-standing Parish Councillor, and started North West Councils Against Fluoridation over twenty years ago with the support of the Barrow-in-Furness Council. By popular demand it soon became the nation-wide organisation - UKCAF - that it is today. At the height of the last round of confrontation with Government over water fluoridation, UKCAF represented over fifty Local Authorities in North-West England and Northern Ireland. Liz's role in co-ordinating the resistance of Councils is mainly responsible for the continued absence of fluoridation in almost the whole of the north of the country and in Northern Ireland.

Liz has been the driving force behind the considerable success of UKCAF in frustrating the attempts of the lunatic dental sector's obsession in promoting this mad medical assault on the British public - see About UKCAF.

Doug Cross

Doug acts as the Webmaster of the UKCAF site, using his extensive scientific background to provide in-depth analyses of the scientific and legal issues behind recent news and developments in the field of water fluoridation. A professional biologist for the past 46 years, Doug has worked in toxicological research, as a University Lecturer in Applied Ecology, and a Consultant to most of the International Development Agencies and leading Civil Engineering Consortia, He has extensive experience as an Expert Witness in Forensic Ecology and legal compliance analysis - and even qualified as a medical radiographer in the Royal Army Medical Corps (skills that he still employs on occasion!)

Doug is a Fellow of the Society of Biology, a Chartered Biologist and a European Professional Biologist. His detailed CVs can be accessed by clicking HERE

But in 'real life' she is a successful professonal artist, with many years of experience with a range of media, and her work has been shown at numerous Exhibitions and Collections. Having mastered the techniques and concepts of more traditional styles of painting, she has now moved on to a more radical approach, emphasising the balance of colour and movement in her use of acrylics and mixed media. You can view examples of her recent work in her On-Line Gallery by clicking HERE.

She has also applied her understanding of the psychological basis behind the creative process of artistic expression to the application of art therapy, to help disturbed nd disabled people reach an understanding of their problems and overcome their own personal difficulties.

His wide-ranging scientific interests include the application of forensic techniques to the investigation of environmental accidents and controversial developments. He acts as a Team and Mission Leader for Interntionl Development Agencies and Consultants in the preparation, review and assesment of projects around the world, responsible for quality control of analyses, reports, project proposals and policy developments across an remarkably wide range of disciplines.

His practical experience in the field, in research laboratories and in Courts at all levels, and his competence in the fields of engineering, toxicology, public health management, legal compliance and human rights applications enables him to provide Clients with a uniquely comprehensive service as n independent Consultant with a formidable international reputation.

Away from the Office, Doug is an enthusiastic mechanical engineer, restoring, modifying and running old Douglas motorcycles, developing underwater acoustic equipment and engaging in numerous other projects, from designing and constructing stained glass windows and jewelry to inventing automated garden maintenance systems.

Liz has worked as a painter for many years, using watercolours, oils, pastels and acrylics to experiment with form and composition. She has moved away from conventional semi-pictorial representations, and now develops images in which complex colour relationships transfer life and movement onto her abstract canvases.

He lectures to University students studying forensic sciences, and often carries out forensic investigations in his workshop-laboratory, to provide Clients with novel approaches to solving intractable environmental problems.

He has a formidable reputation as an Expert Witness, and his easy style of reporting on obsure scientific and legal issues conceals an incisive ability to analyse and explain complex and often inconvenient evidence on issues that politicians would prefer remained unsuspected by the general public.

Over the past three years Liz's work has exploded into a radically new and unique approach, replacing representation with pure movement. Using subtly-rendered swathes of colour, her 'Wave' canvasses translate the linear, backwardly-flowing rush of the water at the foot of the wave into the roiling, boiling, circular accelleration of the water, as it races up and ahead of the wave of which it is fleetingly a part.

In her latest landscape canvas, the pressure of the gale pounding on the forest is transformed into softly-yielding curves that link the stubborn resistance of the terrain with the dynamic and ever-changing response of the living trees to the invisible but dominant force of the howling wind itself.

He writes acidicly on the absurd curiosities that crop up in our increasingly strange and disjointed society, exposing the stupidity of 'The Establishment' and those on whom it relies to implement its increasingly bizarre whims and foibles.

Doug taught Martial Arts for many years, and has Black Belts in Aikido, Iaido and Budo. He is a prolific writer, and produces a wide range of technical reports and popular articles on ecological forensics, envi(ronmental science and law. He also writes about comic aspects of the application of science and law to everyday life. (Try working out what this road-sign near Barrow-in- Furness below is attempting to warn motorists about!)

'Force 10'
Acrylics on canvas, 47" x 40"
Liz Vaughan, 2010

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