Spider forces school closure

1st October 2004, 1:00am

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Spider forces school closure

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A tropical spider forced a school to shut after it crawled out from a pair of Senegalese drums brought for a music workshop.

About 350 pupils at Whitelands Park primary in Thatcham, Berkshire, were given the day off on Tuesday while the school was fumigated.

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