A rare butterfly has returned to the Lancashire countryside after a 100 year absence. The large heath butterfly is being reintroduced to Heysham Moss, Lancashire. This breed of butterfly was last recorded at the site at the beginning of the 20th century. The reintroduction project has involved Chester Zoo, Lancashire Wildlife Trust and funder Lancashire Environmental Fund.
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
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 .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .