Exageration it seems is now the name of the game.
We heard on Countryfile (BBC1) (Sunday, 2nd November 2025), Bill Ridgeway writes.
"Every year more than 5,000 boats make their way along the Kennet & Avon Canal."
A figure which must be credible because we heard it from John Craven—or is it another example of CaRT statistics bloat?
And we see that the Inland Waterways Association is now boasting of 10 million visitors a year to the waterways, as Victor prophesied earlier in the year, up from 8 million!—Editor.