This trio set off on a 12-mile mini-triathlon in 1986 to raise money for Riding for the Disabled. Jonathan Puddicombe, left, Mike Reed, centre, and Merrick Sheldon cycled from Cumnor to Stanton Harcourt, swam across the Thames, then ran back to the pub, raising £50.

Oxford Mail:

A large cast of pupils aged 11 to 14 at Matthew Arnold School staged a production of Treasure Island in 1984. The Robert Louis Stevenson classic was turned into a musical play by teachers Elaine Dicks and Nicholas Barton. Pictured left to right are Nicole Hayes, Katherine Smith, Nicholas Dent, Richard Cornley and Nicholas Beale.

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The village horticultural society planted a crab apple tree to mark its link with a similar group in Simco, Canada. Society chairman Brigadier R M H Hill, left, planted the tree with the help of Arthur Boyle in the village school grounds.