Many teenagers scrimp and save to buy their parents a Christmas present. Not Jack Bitton. He got his mum a £5,000 car.

The 14-year-old won the red Suzuki Alto in a charity prize draw but must wait a few more years before he can learn to drive.

So he has made himself extremely popular at home by handing over the keys to his mum Tracey as an early Christmas gift.

Jack won the car, supplied by Brighton Suzuki, in a raffle at the First City Winter Ball held at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel.

All of the 650 guests at the glittering event were invited to write their names on a £20 note and put it into a glass box for the draw.

Jack's note was pulled out during the bash and as soon as he won, he called his mum who was tucked up in bed Tracey, 43, of Portland Avenue, Hove, said: "He said 'Mum, I've just won a car'. I got myself up and said 'Will you repeat that'. He said it was a Christmas gift for me."

She has now swapped her ten-year-old Ford Mondeo estate for the Suzuki and said: "It came at the right time because my car is getting old.

"The Suzuki is so easy to drive compared to my estate. I can zip through traffic and park more easily. There aren't many 14-year-olds who can say they've given their mum a car for Christmas. Jack came up trumps."

Jack, a pupil at Shoreham College, said: "I was really stunned and really glad. I was the only person at the ball who wasn't old enough to drive and I won the car.

"When I phoned my mum she didn't believe me. Well it was midnight. I had to get someone else to tell her."

Jack made the decision immediately to give it to his mother.

He said: "My mum has been really good to me throughout my life and it's no use to me right now. She will have to repay me when I'm 17 or 18."

The ball, which cost £75 a ticket, was the last of its kind organised by a group of business people from Brighton and Hove, including Hove Car Wash owner Robbie Raggio.

Mr Raggio said: "It was a fantastically successful evening. I think this is the biggest amount of money ever raised in Sussex in one evening.

"Everybody who left could not believe what a fantastic time they had."

Other raffle prizes included a holiday to Barbados and a pair of diamond earrings.

An auction of a signed England rugby shirt, the first auctioned after the team's World Cup victory, raised £5,500 alone.

The event raised a record £110,000 to be divided between The Pink Dolphin Appeal and The Alzheimers Society.

The Pink Dolphin Appeal aims to raise £1.5 million for a new breast cancer unit in Brighton and Hove.