Liz Burrows News Today

Evelyn Vásquez Villalobos, from Costa Rica, who was nine months pregnant and due to give birth any day has allegedly died from a scorpion bite in her home after being found by her husband

The couple has never had a scorpion at their home leading them to believe it hitched their flight from Kenya.

A UK family was flabbergasted after finding a scorpion in their kitchen — which they believed hitched a 6,000-mile ride back with them from their trip to Africa.

Liz Burrows, 50, and her husband Ian, 52, came home with their 18-year-old daughter Daisy to find the 4cm long creature in the middle of the floor.

The Burrows family discovered the venomous little scorpion in their kitchen, more than two weeks after their daughter Daisy, 18, returned from a recent trip to Kenya

They believe it might have snuck back with Daisy, their 18-year-old daughter.

Daughter Daisy said she recognised the arachnid from her travels in Kenya.

WE are all guilty of walking past them without paying them a second glance and wondering just who on earth is at the top of the plinths.

A new national database from ArtUK catalogues some of the quirkier statues from around the country.

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