POLICE are investigating a series of car fires last night.

Arsonists struck first at the back of the of the RSPB building in South Bar, Banbury, shortly after 8pm, while a van was set alight at the back of the Reindeer pub in Bolton Road, Banbury, at 10.25pm.

In Oxford, at 11pm, a car was set alight on the field of the leisure centre in Pegasus Road, Blackbird Leys, and a vehicle was also torched in Sunningwell Road, Sunningwell, at 2am.