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Search the Bolton Evening News for Hydrocharger and you will find several articles parroting the virtues of this company… a company who are known to be selling a product that does not work. It would seem in the desperate fight to fill column-inches reporters at the paper have totally failed to investigate any of the outrageous claims made by this company and just printed their lies verbatim.

Samantha and Neil Prendergast of Hydrocharger are also responsible for WaterMotive Ltd and Water4GasUK and Tranztec UK, three more UK based HHO scams. Neil and Sam Prendergast were also the founders of “Water Fuel Expert“, an old USA based HHO scam. I wonder if there are any more I have missed?

Of course I have pointed this out to the Bolton Evening News, I have sent them several emails and made a couple of phone calls, I have even had assurances from some that my “allegations” were “being investigated”. But months later the four articles are there on line for anyone to read.

And, most mind-numbing of all, is Hydrocharger’s nomination for the award of “Start-up Business of the Year”!! See Bolton and Bury Business Awards and Business Bolton for more on this scary prospect.

I can only assume that either The Bolton Evening News are in on the scam, which I doubt, or they are spineless and can’t admit they are wrong and are hoping I will go away or shut up and stop pointing out how dumb they are being.

The four offending articles are:

• Fuel saver is way ahead
• Couple’s hopes for fuel-saver
• This year’s finalists
• Trade mission bids to foster links with India

James Higgins, Assistant Editor, assured me he was looking into the matter, as did Wes Wright. Nevertheless the articles are still on the paper’s website and Hydrocharger are still listed as being short-listed as possible winners for “Start-up Business of the Year”.

Does failing to act, given the information I have supplied, make these people complicit in the scam? I’m not sure.

James Higgins said:

We will not be removing anything from our website until we have proof to the contrary of what the people behind Hydrocharger claim. As you can probably imagine, we need to research this issue properly. We cannot simply take claims made in a couple odd internet articles to be gospel. That woudl be bad journalism.

… which is retarded to say the least! They printed several articles based on no proof whatsoever, having done no research, and are suggesting that they won’t remove the articles until they see proof to say that the claims are wrong (that would be science backwards). What is worse journalism; printing rubbish without checking your facts or refusing to remove it when it is pointed out to you?

Other people contacted are Ian Savage ian.savage@theboltonnews.co.uk and Andrew Mosley amosley@theboltonnews.co.uk .