Hundreds of cyclists turned out on Sunday, July 7 for an annual fundraising bike ride in memory of an Oxford woman who died of stomach cancer.

The cyclists in action

Janet Russell launched the event in 1992 to raise cash for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's oncology unit at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.

When she died four years later, the event was continued by her mother, Betty Davies, of Lockheart Crescent, Cowley, Oxford.

The event started with a minute's silence in her memory before the cyclists set off from Cheney School, Headington, above.

More than £45,000 has been raised during the past 11 years. Mrs Davies, 72, hopes the total will pass £50,000 this year.