If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .

WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .

AN anorexic woman whose heart stopped after she starved herself to 3st has revealed that ‘dying’ for a minute helped shock her into recovery .

This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .

CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .

A mum-of-two has revealed how her childhood friend of 20 years attacked her with a cosh and broke her nose in a vicious attack .

STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .

A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .

Ashlee, 20, has always known that she was supposed to be a girl .

A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .