Sift the flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl and add the sugar and stir. Add the cherries and mashed banana and stir again. In a separate smaller bowl beat the eggs. Measure out the oil then add the orange juice before mixing the whole lot into the eggs then in turn add that to the dry mixture. Stir until it looks fairly smooth. It will be a fairly wet mix. 

Use a 2lb loaf tin, grease, then pour in the mix. Cook at 150-160oC for 45 minutes before checking with a skewer. Mine needed an extra half an hour on top of this but it pays to check it early to see how it's progressing. The loaf is cooked when the knife comes out virtually clean. This is a very moist loaf recipe.

I made this two weeks on the trot it was so good! The first week I didn't have banking powder so used bicarbonate of soda instead and it was fine. The second week I had no orange juice so used the juice of one lemon which also seemed fine.