A dad says his toe is "literally rotting off" and is desperate to have it amputated after he was bitten by a false widow spider in his garden.
Frank Fox, 60, spotted the spider that had crawled into his slipper after coming in from the garden. A few hours later there was a small blister on the side of his left big toe which he popped, cleaned and put talcum powder on.
But after a few weeks the blister had grown to the size of a five pence piece and Frank visited his GP practice where a nurse cleaned and dressed the wound.
