Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside. Alone at home, the 24-year-old hid behind drawn curtains and refused to answer the phone. It had been days since she'd ventured out to see her mates and even the sight of a new text had her on edge. For months, Rebecca was a nervous wreck - all because of her ex-boyfriend.
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
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 .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .