What on earth is this ??

 A dead nastie on the edge of the pathway at the back our our house.
Never seen anything like it before in my life!  It's about 2 inches long
with a fat body like a big spider ?  :eek:

https://picasaweb.google.com/valerie.copeland/What#slideshow/5625954502794374242
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I'd assume it to be a crustacean. (Picasaweb keeps redrawing the image
on me, so I can't count legs, but are there 10?)  If you're inland, then
I'd suggest a crayfish. If you're on the coast a number of marine
decapods would also be possible.

Try uk.rec.natural-history.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

 On 05/07/2011 20:59, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

It's nothing like a crayfish tho - has a spiderlike body.  I'll try the
newsgroup link you posted, tx.

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Old minds are like old horses;
you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
~John Quncy Adams

 
Answered elsewhere, but it's a juvenile one of these:

Signal crayfish.      Taking over waterways and wiping out our native
crayfish I believe.   :-(

Took this at Etherow Park a few years ago...

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/22583887
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https://picasaweb.google.com/valerie.copeland/What#slideshow/5625954502794374242

Looks like a signal crayfish

Tina