Sadly this year’s River Dart Sponsored Struggle, the annual charity white-water race from Buckfastleigh to Totnes, was cancelled due to... a lack of river water.

Following the dry summer organisers deemed it too risky to go ahead which of course means our normal two page picture spread of the event won’t be going ahead either.

However, a trawl through the archive pictures from the late 1970s and early 1980s means we can offer up a look at the raft races from the past’