Spider-Man Scales Lloyds Building

The Times may be doing Everest today, but the Grauniad has interviewed French climber Alain Roberts - aka Spiderman - who yesterday scaled the Lloyd's building in London as a publicity stunt for today's TV premiere of the TV premiere of Spider-Man on the Sky Movie Channel.

The bonkers French builderer took just 20 minutes to scale the building and was promptly arrested by the police. The Guardian speculates that he'll be paid over £10,000 for the stunt and fined a piffling amount for creating a public nuisance.

Apparently Roberts started by climbing conventional rock routes in the Alps but became disillusioned after scaling some of the hardest climbs around and concluding, at the age of 17, that they were too easy. He turned his attention to buildings and has now scaled some of the highest in the world.

Typically Fench, he comments: 'When you are facing your own death, money is not important'. To read the full interview with Spidey, click here. If you want to see pictures of a barking mad Frenchman dressed as a cartoon superhero, don't fret, Sky News delivers...