A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants. Disgusted mourners have arrived at their loved ones graves to find penalty notices insensitively stuck to the headstones, demanding money for having more than one pot plant. Several visitors to Alfreton Cemetery in Derbyshire were met with a letter from Amber Valley Borough Council stating they had to pay for a garden permit.
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .