Meet the dog-loving woman who spends £20k a year looking after her 30 pet PUGS. Becca Drake, 40, of Sandbach, Cheshire, has dedicated her life to caring for her pet pooches and insists that her pugs are worth every penny and more. After being gifted her first pug puppy from her parents Barrie, 68 and Merle, 72, on her 30th Birthday, Becca instantly fell in love with the popular flat-faced breed. Now Becca shares her two bedroom modest home with 30 adorable mutts, which she has rescued and bred over the past 10 years.
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
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YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
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BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
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WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .