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. The poem, called I've been wandering in the greenwoods, was written when the famous novelist was just 13-years-old and is said to be extremely rare - with only two others being traced in the last 40-years. It was sold at an auction by Bonhams in London where it was bought for a staggering £92,450 by an unidentified buyer from abroad. The auctioneers had previously estimated it would sell for £45,000. The signed manuscript, dated 14 December 1829, is written on a small slip of paper about three inches in size in such small writing that it cannot be easily read without a magnifying glass.
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
