Spider fright for school children

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An exotic spider has forced a school to shut.

About 350 pupils at Whitelands Park Primary School, in Thatcham, Berkshire, were given the day off after the eight-legged intruder crawled from a set of drums brought in from Senegal for a music workshop.

Pest control officials fumigated the premises to flush out the speckled brown spider, said to be as big as an adult's palm. "The spider was spotted when it fell out of a set of drums," said Keith Ulyatt, spokesman for West Berkshire local education authority.