Cucumber Green Spider Araniella cucurbitina
Garden Spider, Monks Eleigh Garden, Suffolk, England, July 2009 - click for larger image Monks Eleigh Garden, Suffolk, England

I'm pretty sure that photo 1 is correctly identified but I'm not so sure about photo 2 where the front two legs look very long.

It belongs to the orb-web spider family and the female spins a small orb web in trees and shrubs in Britain.
Garden Spider, Monks Eleigh Garden, Suffolk, England, July 2009 - click for larger image

There is more information on europespiders.com .

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