spiders

An “And Finally” to make your flesh creep this week. This story tells us:

A mother who found eggs belonging to one of the world’s most venomous spiders hidden in her Tesco bananas had to have her vacuum incinerated after she tried to clean them up.

Pest control experts hired by the supermarket told Abby Woodgate, 30, anything that had been in contact with the bunch and its deadly cargo would have to be burned.

At first she had thought the bananas were mouldy when she noticed a white lump after they were delivered to her home.

But when she poked the mysterious growth with a toothpick, a cocoon opened, revealing dozens of tropical eggs.

She immediately threw the fruit in the bin, but a few eggs dropped on her kitchen floor, which she vacuumed clean.

When she called Tesco’s store in Colchester, Essex, staff said they would come round to collect the bananas. Later she received another call saying pest controllers would come round instead.