A widow whose love rat ex-boyfriend left her homeless has had the last laugh after a judge ordered her ex to pay back £300,000. Lyn Walcott, 68, of Hadleigh, Essex, was forced to move in with friends after she lent money to her boyfriend of seven years, Martin Forster, 57, to pay off debts and buy stock for his jewellery business. The mother-of two met Martin, a professional gambler, on a blind date in March 2005, and the couple quickly became an item.
An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .
A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
Thousands of people are gathering at a stadium in Johannesburg for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - BRAVE TOT ALLERGIC TO SUN: Leighton Brownrigg, 2 .
COULD this £5,000 auction of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool front door be the most bizarre celebrity sale yet? The door, which looks-like it may have been knocked – and possibly kicked – very hard during its past, was used by members of Britain’s most famous band to visit lead-singer Paul McCartney when he lived at the address from 1955 to 1964 .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .