Strange creature found in apricots

Since the pack was from Turkey Mrs Broad of Bakery Cottage, Blackboys, was worried about what the worm could be and phoned Uckfield Community Technology College to stop Maddie eating the apricots for her lunch.

Then she set about trying to identify the worm and contacted Drusillas zoo park whose staff were pleased to help because of concern that creatures coming from another country could be carrying germs or herald the introduction of an invasive species.

But this one turned out to be a harmless European millipede. Mrs Broad was told that it wouldn't survive on its own in our climate and so it was put in with the park's own millipedes.

'All's well that ends well,' said Mrs Broad, who is married to Mark and also has a son, Chester, aged ten, who goes to St Mark's Primary School at Hadlow Down.

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