A spider presumed extinct in Britain for almost half a century has been spotted by National Trust rangers.
The tiny diamond spider, which measures just 7mm in length was last seen in the UK in 1969, and conservationists feared that habitat lost had killed off the species.
However two National Trust volunteers were astonished to find the rare arachnid while while carrying out ecological monitoring of heathland at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire.=read more
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