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A rescue mission was launched at the Great River Race this weekend after a woman was hit in the head by an oar in Millwall Dock.

Members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, as well as paramedics and a fire crew were called to the incident on the Isle of Dogs on Saturday.

The Millwall Dock, that forms a reversed 'L' shape through the heart of the Isle of Dogs, was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1864.

The Millwall Canal Company changed its name to Millwall Freehold Land And Dock Company on incorporation and bought up 200 acres of mainly marshland.

For an update from the Docklands Sailing and Watersport Centre activities in April see the longer version of this entry...

THE last decade has sailed by for Judi Sanders.

She is manager of the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre at Millwall Dock in Westferry Road, and says she is in her dream job.

The 58-year-old joined in 1998 from the London Docklands Development Corporation and over that time the centre has gone from strength to strength.