As you munch your way through the festive season, spare a thought for the [url=http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141117-giant-earwig-declared-extinctSt Helens Giant Earwig[/url, which after billions of years on the planet, has reached the end of the line.

RIP, Earwig. Gone but never forgotten

=#FFFFFFYes I know it's Saint bleedin Helena not St Helens OK

Napoleon got sent to St Helens ... the same thing happened to him too.

So did Willie Manu's career...

Gone are the days when I needed earwigs. They can sprout their own hair now.

I'd never before been able to make any sense of that Saints "Earwigo" song.