A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants. Disgusted mourners have arrived at their loved ones graves to find penalty notices insensitively stuck to the headstones, demanding money for having more than one pot plant. Several visitors to Alfreton Cemetery in Derbyshire were met with a letter from Amber Valley Borough Council stating they had to pay for a garden permit.
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
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 .
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 .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
THROWING himself off 1,100ft bridges in a wheelchair, this is the PARALYSED base jumper who knows no fear .