While most Brits look forward to long hot summer days, a mum-of-six will be staying in the shade - as she is allergic to the sun. Laura Martindale, 26, suffers from a severe allergic reaction called Actinic Prurigo, which causes her skin to burn and break out in a rash when exposed to UVA and UVB light. At home, the full-time mum keeps the curtains and blinds closed during the day, and when she steps outside, she is forced to wear long sleeved tops and gloves, as well as high factor 50 suncream.
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
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 .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .