Downstream

over to the side, but they were
sucked back by the current
right into the path of the
steamer, which ploughed
straight into them and cut
their boat in half. ‘My
husband and the older kids
went one way and I went the
other,’ Margaret, who
couldn’t swim, later told the
Bucks Free Newspaper. Then
a fifteen-year-old ‘schoolboy
swimming champion’ heard
her screams and dived in. ‘He