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 .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone .

FROM a Kung-Fu professional to a mini incredible hulk, these are the babies you wouldn't want to mess with .

THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .

INTIMATELY showcasing personal artefacts from a family's life, this abandoned bungalow has been left to rot for almost a decade .

A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .

CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .

THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .

A prolific drug dealer was caught red-handed in a car filled with amphetamines after he decided to park in a top copper's parking space - as a joke .

SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .