The RSPCA and police have urged residents who notice suspicious activity along the canal to report it immediately.

BBC: Swan body parts found along Lincoln canal

Its existence came to public notice just when, after a quarter-century of intermittent activity on the Labour back benches, Mr Robinson had become a Treasury minister in Tony Blair's new government, and not long after he, of all ministers, had been put in charge of a government effort to winkle out offshore tax havens.

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