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The Darter is an ex-boxer but he’s also an expert in navigation, descended from generations of lightermen, those who know every creek and tideway of the London stretches of the Thames.

Enough of such guarantees and Mr Osborne will be able to pronounce the tideway tunnel one of 40 priority projects to spearhead a multibillion-pound infrastructure boost – without increasing public borrowing at all.

He could see the white smear of tideway that streamed around the head, and the gray wall of rock seemed forging back toward him through the midst of it.

This sudden apparition which had approached noiselessly over the soft marshes, was plainly outlined against the surrounding wildness of salt-marsh and tideway.

The word "amateur" seems to be adrift upon the same bewildering tideway as the words "angler" and "angling."