A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school. Meryem Davies, 38, was shamed into losing 10st thanks to her five-year-old son Thomas’ brutal honesty. Now the online shopper at Sainsbury’s from Pontypridd, South Wales, weighs a healthy 10st and is a trim size 10.
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
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 trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .