The honey monster..

Pair find 6ft comb under floor

- BY JOSIE ADNITT

A couple discovered their house had become the site of a giant beehive after honey started dripping down their walls.

Kate Dempsey, 41, noticed some dark patches in her home in Folkestone, Kent, and initially dismissed them as damp.

But after smelling something sweet, she decided to pull up the floorboards - where she discovered six-foot pieces of honeycomb and litres of honey.

Kate, who works as a diversity and inclusion advisor, said she was in disbelief after discovering the "huge" beehive.

She said: "We'd never seen anything like it. The sheer volume of the hive was huge.

"We kept cutting these floorboards away and more and more honeycomb kept appearing.

"The smell hit you immediately. It was this sweet stench and we had this really sickly smell for ages - [I just felt] disbelief really."