HOTSPOT MEDIA - BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH AR' KID: A POSTAL SORTER has perfected the art of time travel by delivering images that are from the past. Step into Neil Pearson's photographs and you can see what the north looked like then and what it looks like now. The 46-year-old recreated old pictures around his home city of Salford and blended the old and the new together with some photoshop wizardry. ... (Pic by Neil Pearson / HotSpot Media) 0121 551 1004
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .