It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .

A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .

An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .

SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .

MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .

Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .

A weightlifter has lost a whopping 12st after swapping biscuits for biceps .