IS there a tarantula on the loose in Lymm?

This was the sight that greeted Daniel Marsh outside his workplace Enquiry Experts on Bridgewater Street during his dinner break on Friday.

But opinion is divided whether it was a dead tarantula or whether a live spider that had shed its skin – leaving the possibility that the eight-legged fiend is still at large.

Mr Marsh spotted the tarantula behind a plant pot near the a pub in the village and Liam Byron, from Warrington Pets and Exotics, told the Warrington Guardian that it was the moult of a Brazilian giant white knee .

Do you think it was a dead tarantula or one that had shed its skin?

Have you seen the Lymm tarantula?

Call Adam Everett on 434109 or email adam.everett@nqnw.co.uk