IF you don't like creepy-crawlies, it might be best to look away now.

The Independent reports that shopper Abby Woodgate, from Colchester, found eggs from the 'world's deadliest spider' in a bunch of bananas she bought from Tesco.

INTERESTING insight into the make-up of British society in The Independent newspaper. A report published by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission says that a 'cosy club' of people educated at private schools and Oxbridge still dominates politics, the judiciary and media.

The report calls for class to be given as much priority as gender and ethnicity in a 'national mission' to break open an elite 'formed on the playing fields of independent schools' and 'finished in Oxbridge’s dreaming spire'.

WHEN a woman in Winchester, Hampshire, opened the door to her rarely-used guest room she discovered a giant wasps' nest containing around 5,000 insects on the bed!

She had to call in pest control expert John Birkett, who told the Daily Mirror: “In 45 years I have never seen anything like it. At one stage there must have been 2,000 wasps buzzing around me. If someone had gone in to the room and not known what it was, it would have been pretty serious.”

IF you fancy British beer, then a brew from West Yorkshire is the one for you.

The BBC reports that Timothy Taylor's 'Boltmaker', from Keighley, has been crowned the best beer in the country at the Great British Beer Festival in London.

IT seems that people taking 'selfies' don't like black cats.

According to the RSPCA, hundreds of the animals are being abandoned as their owners complain that black animals do not photograph as well as their lighter and brighter-coloured counterparts.

BRITAIN is full of eccentrics, none more so than 49 year old Stuart Kettell from Balsall Common in the West Midlands, who took three days to push a Brussels sprout up the 1,085m Snowdon mountain in Wales with his nose.

The BBC reports that Stuart trained for the charity effort by pushing a sprout around his garden.

“People definitely think I'm mad, and I'm beginning to think it myself,” said Stuart who aims to raise £5,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

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