Businesses are invited to sponsor pages on the new Wantage Fire Service website in return for a donation to a benevolent fund.

Fire station manager Tony Whiting said that the website, launched earlier this month, was a tremendous success with hundreds of hits a day.

He added: "We'd like to involve the community as much as we can and are inviting local businesses to sponsor any one of our web pages for a donation. In return they will have a banner advertising their business on the page they choose."

Log on to the website at www.wantagefirestation.com