Who's pinched my seat?

PASSENGERS who shelled out for a first-class train seat were shocked to find it already taken - by a live crab.

- By Isobel Williams

The crustacean commuter - which has since been nicknamed Craig - legged it on to a South Western Railway service from London Waterloo to Portsmouth.

Bemused train driver Mark Walsh had to pinch himself when a passenger alerted him to the unusual traveller, thinking it was a joke - until he went to meet the crab.