Animal collection officer Vic Hurr said the mildly venomous European yellow-tailed scorpion had escaped from luggage. "The scorpion was only small but he was a feisty little thing," she said.

An Irish woman discovered she had brought an unwanted souvenir home this week, when she found a scorpion in her luggage 12 days after returning from a horse-riding trip to Kenya. The fat-tailed ...