A SOUTHAMPTON student has been crowned queen of the laughs after winning the title of Britain's funniest student.

Hannah George, who attends Southampton Solent University, scooped the award after taking part in the Paramount Comedy on Tap search for a rising UK funny-man or woman.

Hannah, 19, competed against scores of other would-be commediennes at London's world-famous Comedy Store.

She is in her first year at the university where she is doing a degree in comedy writing.

But could you do better?

The Daily Echo has now teamed up with Southampton's Jongleurs Club in a search for city's top comedian, with Hannah agreeing to be one of the judges.

Find out more in today's Daily Echo.