STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life. Now, Tavern Bland and the Fresh from the Farm Shop have become dusty tributes to the 1970s and 1980s. The pub and the shop in Haxey in North Lincolnshire have been abandoned for a number of years. The last time there were residents in either is unknown, but the contents of both buildings remain intact…
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
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 .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .