UKCAF website

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 largely scientifically iliterate dental sector's obsession in promoting this 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 51 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 Royal Society of Biology, Chartered Biologist and an Honorary Member of the Collegium Basilea Institute of Advanced Study, in Basel, Switzerland. He has resigned from the ranks of Chartered Scientists, on the grounds that it has no relevance to independent Consultants! His LinkedIn profile can be viewed 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.

She has also applied her understanding of the psychological basis behind the creative process of artistic expression. She is a qualified Art Therapist, and has worked with disturbed and disabled people to help them understand their problems and overcome their own personal difficulties.

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 enables him to provide Clients with a uniquely comprehensive service as an independent Consultant.

Recent work has involved review of the effects of Cumbrian coastal currents on the operation of a new nuclear power station next to the Sellafield nuclear waste reprocessing complex, the medical effets of ultra-low frequency vibration from large wind turbines, the relationship between glyphosate, aluminium and fluoride in dementia, and an investigation into the apparent poisoning of a very senior Nigerian politician!

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 more abstract images in which complex colour relationships transfer life and movement onto her large canvases.

Away from the Office, Doug is an enthusiastic mechanical engineer, restoring, modifying and running old Douglas motorcycles. He taught Martial Arts for many years, and has Black Belts in Aikido, Iaido and Budo.

More recently, Liz's work has explored a radically new and unique approach. She has now moved on from representational painting into incorporating movement into abstract works.

Originally deriving from her earlier landscape compositions, her work explores the relationships between colour, texture and movement in purely abstract works that contrast vividly with the less exuberant compositions of more conventional representational painters.

Her 'Wave' canvasses are extremely popular in the surfing community. and translate the dynamic rotation of the water at the foot of the wave as it races up and ahead towards the beach.

She has been approached by one of New York's most prestigious Galleries to promote her work in the United States, and by a Gallery in Greece wishing to feature her recent work.

In recent years her work has been on exhibition and sale at the Anglesea Gallery (Oriel Ynys Môn), the leading Art Gallery in North Wales.

She currently has seven paintings on show there, and greeting cards featuring her modern abstracts are in considerable demand.

Doug 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 is the author of the chapter on Environmental Forensics in John Wiley and Son's 'Enclyclopaedia of Forensic Science'

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

He relaxes by writing about the more comic aspects of 'Life, the universe, everything!' that crop up in daily life, including the absurd misunderstandings about science and law that emerge wherever you look closely at life and ask yourself - "What am I really seeing here?". This road-sign near Barrow-in- Furness is a recent treasured discovery! Check out his blog at the top of the page.

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