More than 20 police investigations have been launched into alleged disorder among touts, sabotage and theft of boats in Cambridge’s ‘punt wars’.

Details have emerged about a total of 21 probes undertaken by officers since 2011 over incidents linked to the lucrative trade.

Inquiries into battles in the street between punt touts fighting for business have been recorded, documents released to the News using freedom of information laws have revealed.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.