Comedian Mark Maier has won the Petfringe Final, which claims to offer the winner the biggest cash prize in stand-up – £10,001 - a pound more than the Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Organiser Andy Stedman said that this year's competition  in Petworth, Sussex "was probably the best line-up and set of performances I’ve seen in one room on the same night."

For the first time in the competition's history there was actually a tie for first place with Maier coming out joint first with one-liner specialist Mark Simmons, so Petfringe themselves had a casting vote and made Maier the winner for his specially written set.

Joint third was Amir Khoshokhan and Jasper Cromwell-Jones (posh character played by Joe Bor).

Paul Revill was MC and the judges were Sarah from Source Of Humour agency, Lucy from Petfringe and the audience who all voted for their favourite act of the night.

The other finalists were Sally-Ann Hayward, Alistair Williams, Colin Chadwick and Pete Beckley.