A rare species of spider has been spotted at a National Trust conservation site, in what the charity believes is the first such sighting in the area.

Just in time for Halloween, bosses said a visitor at Kinver Edge on the Staffordshire-Worcestershire border saw the secretive purseweb spider.

The eight-legged critter is sometimes called Britain’s “mini-tarantula” and was found in heathland around Kingsford Heath.