diff --git a/scrapy/core/scraper.py b/scrapy/core/scraper.py
index e5120ec0d..3409a0e7c 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/scraper.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/scraper.py
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ class Slot(object):
     def needs_backout(self):
         return self.active_size > self.max_active_size
 
+
 class Scraper(object):
 
     def __init__(self, crawler):
@@ -100,8 +101,8 @@ class Scraper(object):
             self._scrape_next(spider, slot)
             return _
         dfd.addBoth(finish_scraping)
-        dfd.addErrback(log.err, 'Scraper bug processing %s' % request, \
-            spider=spider)
+        dfd.addErrback(
+            log.err, 'Scraper bug processing %s' % request, spider=spider)
         self._scrape_next(spider, slot)
         return dfd
 
@@ -124,13 +125,13 @@ class Scraper(object):
         """Handle the different cases of request's result been a Response or a
         Failure"""
         if not isinstance(request_result, Failure):
-            return self.spidermw.scrape_response(self.call_spider, \
-                request_result, request, spider)
+            return self.spidermw.scrape_response(
+                self.call_spider, request_result, request, spider)
         else:
             # FIXME: don't ignore errors in spider middleware
             dfd = self.call_spider(request_result, request, spider)
-            return dfd.addErrback(self._log_download_errors, \
-                request_result, request, spider)
+            return dfd.addErrback(
+                self._log_download_errors, request_result, request, spider)
 
     def call_spider(self, result, request, spider):
         result.request = request
@@ -143,11 +144,21 @@ class Scraper(object):
         if isinstance(exc, CloseSpider):
             self.crawler.engine.close_spider(spider, exc.reason or 'cancelled')
             return
-        log.err(_failure, "Spider error processing %s" % request, spider=spider)
-        self.signals.send_catch_log(signal=signals.spider_error, failure=_failure, response=response, \
-            spider=spider)
-        self.crawler.stats.inc_value("spider_exceptions/%s" % _failure.value.__class__.__name__, \
-            spider=spider)
+        referer = request.headers.get('Referer')
+        log.err(
+            _failure,
+            "Spider error processing %s (referer: %s)" % (request, referer),
+            spider=spider
+        )
+        self.signals.send_catch_log(
+            signal=signals.spider_error,
+            failure=_failure, response=response,
+            spider=spider
+        )
+        self.crawler.stats.inc_value(
+            "spider_exceptions/%s" % _failure.value.__class__.__name__,
+            spider=spider
+        )
 
     def handle_spider_output(self, result, request, response, spider):
         if not result:
@@ -180,8 +191,8 @@ class Scraper(object):
         """Log and silence errors that come from the engine (typically download
         errors that got propagated thru here)
         """
-        if isinstance(download_failure, Failure) \
-                and not download_failure.check(IgnoreRequest):
+        if (isinstance(download_failure, Failure) and
+                not download_failure.check(IgnoreRequest)):
             if download_failure.frames:
                 log.err(download_failure, 'Error downloading %s' % request,
                         spider=spider)
@@ -204,13 +215,15 @@ class Scraper(object):
             if isinstance(ex, DropItem):
                 logkws = self.logformatter.dropped(item, ex, response, spider)
                 log.msg(spider=spider, **logkws)
-                return self.signals.send_catch_log_deferred(signal=signals.item_dropped, \
-                    item=item, response=response, spider=spider, exception=output.value)
+                return self.signals.send_catch_log_deferred(
+                    signal=signals.item_dropped, item=item, response=response,
+                    spider=spider, exception=output.value)
             else:
                 log.err(output, 'Error processing %s' % item, spider=spider)
         else:
             logkws = self.logformatter.scraped(output, response, spider)
             log.msg(spider=spider, **logkws)
-            return self.signals.send_catch_log_deferred(signal=signals.item_scraped, \
-                item=output, response=response, spider=spider)
+            return self.signals.send_catch_log_deferred(
+                signal=signals.item_scraped, item=output, response=response,
+                spider=spider)