An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back. Surrounded by misty woodland in south-west London, the pair appear to have escaped from a scene in Walt Disney's classic 1942 animated film, Bambi. The moment was captured by 54-year-old photographer Val Saxby at Bushy Park in Richmond upon Thames, London.
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
The dog having been pulled from the car - A police officer smashed a window in the blue Chrysler car to free the dog which was in visible distress .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .