Dear All. Please take care and be vigilant as Beckworth may have become infested by a swarm of hostile snakes!! I have just found one in a lettuce on my allotment, and looking it up on Dr Brian Cox’s website have identified it as the world’s smallest venomous snake. To quote the keyboard-playing professor it is called “the pygmy cheese python (latin: pythonus camembert pygmius), is a native of Southern France and Belgium that likes to make it’s nest in soft cheeses, can grow to over 2″ in length and has a venom so strong it could kill two grown men with one bite, if they were stood very close to each other.” In other words handle with caution as it’s a killer! I tried to hand this one into the Police but they said they don’t deal with vermin, so i’ve put back in my neighbours vegetable patch until I can work out what to do with it. Beckworth take care. Clifford

(Above) The Pygmy Cheese Python photographed on my allotment just before lunch