OXFORD Sports Council presented grants totalling more £11,000 at their annual meeting and presentation night.

The organisations to benefit were Abbey Netball, Back to Netball, Oxford City Lacrosse, Oxford Cricket Club, Oxfordshire Cricket Board, Oxford Hockey Club and Oxford Sports Tennis Club.

Maeve Hastings, an ice-skater in the national development squad, was helped with some of her costs.

The Sports Council instituted the triangular competition between Oxford City teams (Town), Oxford Brookes University and the University of Oxford, won by the Town.