'I nearly lost my hand to Britain's most poisonous spider': Woman bitten while she SLEPT by close relative of deadly Black Widow that lives in UK

For anyone with a fear of spiders, having one crawl into your bed and bite you is truly the stuff of nightmares.

But for Catherine Coombs, the nightmare is still continuing almost two months later, as a bite – believed to have been from the UK’s most venomous species of spider – nearly caused her to lose her left hand.

The 48-year-old woke up in excruciating pain one night in February, and her hand began to swell dramatically.       Read Here