ALCHESTER runner Sarah Rendell ran in the same Oxfordshire team as former world championship silver medallist athlete Hannah England in the Southern Counties Cross Country Championships near Biggleswade on Saturday.

Rendell was the second Oxon runner home in 28th position, behind middle-distance track specialist England, who was fourth.

The Oxon women’s team came eighth of the ten competing counties.

The county’s women and girls team pictured (from left) is: Lottie Siddle, Fiona Bunn, Jessica Webb, Sarah Rendell, Hannah England, Sarah Lackman Cordelia Parker and Helene Greenwood.