In South Florida, python hunters help fight their severe damage to the ecosystem - as well as providing some cash prizes and leather for haute couture handbags.

Monty Python comedy legend Eric Idle has shared childhood memories of taking the 148 bus from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, as he returns to England to perform for the first time in 13 years.

The python's head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm.