A Jewish teenager who set up a website for motorists to contest parking tickets has seen it attract 32,000 users in its first week.

Joshua Browder, 18, created donotpay.co.uk when he received several parking tickets after passing his driving test.

The site makes contesting tickets easier by creating individual appeals for motorists and sending them to the relevant local authority. The process takes less than a minute.

Mr Browder, from Finchley, north London, said: "I was sick of councils' overzealous approach to issuing penalties and wanted to challenge them."

He missed out on a summer trip to Israel in order to complete the site. Since it was launched, one London council, Camden, has had to extend its deadline to reply to appeals because it has been inundated by messages from motorists using donotpay.co.uk.

Mr Browder, who is a member of Finchley United Synagogue, learned to write computer code at the age of 12. He is about to study computer science at California's Stanford University.