A family of foster carers are facing bankruptcy and homelessness after they signed up to a Government scheme to renovate their house to be used for disabled children's short breaks. Two years ago the Waite family received a grant from Leicestershire County Council to transform their home into a respite centre for severely disabled foster children. But after a dispute arose with the builder over the £75,000 extension to their three bedroom house in Leicestershire, Mark Waite, 44, and his wife Clair, 39, now face losing everything they have worked for. The couple, who represent the third generation in a 100-year family tradition of fostering disabled children, have had to sell all their furniture and clothes on ebay to pay solicitor's fees and say they now face total ruin. They say the council has "left them out in the cold" over the legal wrangle, leaving them responsible for tens of thousands of pounds of debt which will almost certainly result in them ending up on the streets with their two children.
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
A British photographer has captured the beauty of London in a stunning series of landscapes shots .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
