On a rare weekend when Britain bathed in glorious sunshine, local competitors went far and wide in search of honours.

But it was Jason Morgan who took the top accolade with a superb second overall on the Swansea Bay National Rally.

Together with the experienced Adrian Williams on the notes, Morgan was a model of consistency over the five tests in the Walters Arena complex near Glyn Neath.

What made this result all the sweeter was that it was Morgan's first event in his new Winner Garage-backed Lancer Evo 6, which was once campaigned by his father Bob.

"Really pleased with the result, the car has a lot more power than I am used too with the old Subaru," said Morgan.

"I made a few mistakes but it will get better with mileage, thanks to Ade he was spot on as usual."

Joining them in the top five were Mark Griffiths and Tom Marrott in the Griffiths Engineering Escort RS.

Using the event to see if the problems on the recent Somerset Stages had been sorted, they found the opening two tests very slippery, had the electrical problem raise its ugly head again on stage 3, but this was traced and finally sorted, so they cruised through the final two tests to finish fourth overall, first in class.

Ross on Wye duo Scott Partridge and Mike Jode ventured north for the gruesome Keilder Forest in their ex-Alistair McRae Subaru Impreza for the Pirelli National Rally.

There were two separate events on both Saturday and Sunday, which were very poorly supported.

Saturday's rally consisted of just three stages and 22 miles, but for the experienced Jode it was his first time back in Keilder Forest for 27 years.

They had a trouble-free run as Partridge, on his first event since the Wyedean, built his speed over the narrow Northumberland roads to net fifth overall, second in class.

Day two saw a further six stages and 44 miles, again a trouble-free run netted another fifth place and second in class.

Graham Waite and Gill Cotton also came away with a good result from the Pirelli Historic rally in the Volvo Amazon, the event being the latest round of the Mintex MSA British Historic Championship and offering 50 miles in just five tests.

Waite got off to a bad start, losing time to his Porsche mounted rivals when he spun at a chicane to lie fourth in category one after the opening test, but after opening indiscretion Waite was on a charge, and on the final test passed the Porsche of Dessie Nutt, to not only finish second overall and first in class in Category one but also eighth overall in the whole historic event.

Nigel Jenkins, co-driven by Karen Watts, returned to Down Ampney for the Wells Masonary Corinium Stages organised by Cirencester Car Club.

Eight stages were laid out for the quality entry of 65 cars.

Jenkins and Watts started well and were embroiled in a ding dong battle for second in class up to stage five, but disaster struck on the next test when the NJ Autos 16v Nova suffered a puncture just off the start and had to drive seven miles on a flat costing over two minutes and any hope of a class award was gone, but they completed the final two stages problem-free to net 20th overall and fourth in class.

• David Higgins and Craig Drew clinched a comfortable victory on the Oregan Trail Rally in the Team Subaru USA Impreza against very strong opposition in the shape of Monster Energy supremo Ken Block in his 600bhp Fiesta WRC, Antione L'Estage now armed wth a new Lancer WRC and APRC championship front runner Rufal Sunkat in a Lancer Evo 9.