A BLACK and white ball has raised £122,347 for The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity. 

The glittering event, at The Hillbark Hotel in Frankby, was hosted by Radio City presenter Pete Price and attended by famous names including BBC broadcasters Victoria Derbyshire and Louise Minchin.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity has recently launched a campaign to raise £15million for construction of a new specialist hospital in Liverpool and improvements to its Wirral site.

The £122,347 raised from the black and white ball fund a stem cell and bone marrow transplant suite in the new hospital.

One person who understands the need for the unit is patient Hannah Martin who spoke to guests on the night, and was the feature of a film shown after dinner.

The 33-year-old from Southport has Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had two stem cell transplants, one using her own cells and another with a donation from her sister.

She said: "This suite is so important because it saves lives. It isn’t a nice thing to go through but to have the best facilities will be a big help to patients like me."

Heswall-based photographer Mike McCartney was among the guests and saw a picture he took of his brother Paul with Beatles band-mate John Lennon as young musicians auctioned on the night.

Also among the auction prizes were a tour of Liverpool's Anfield ground, a £4,000 jewellery set donated by Boodles, the chance to have a dress designed and fitted by Phillip Armstrong, a bottle of specially designed Spectre Bollinger champagne from the Bond film of the same name and signed by Wirral-educated 007 star Daniel Craig and a make-over by hair stylists to the stars Andrew and Liz Collinge.

Katrina Bury, head of The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity, said: "I would like to thank all our guests and sponsors for ensuring The Black and White Ball was such a fantastic success.

"Our host Pete Price was fabulous and the generous guests who bought raffle tickets, bid for auction prizes or bought a ticket for the tombola should be very proud of themselves for helping The Clatterbridge Centre carry out its important work.

"The money raised on the night will go a long way to transforming cancer care for 2.3m people in Merseyside and Cheshire.

"I would like to thank our sponsors and supporters PCM in partnership with BenQ and Fujitsu, A&B Engineering, The Johnson Foundation, Panoramic 34, Boodles, Perrier-Jouet and ANS.

"A special mention must also go to our Appeal Board. Their energy and generosity knows no bounds and without them the night would not have been possible."