HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in. The eight chicks, born at Chester Zoo, snuggle up as they wait for their turn to be weighed. Looking right at home, the first chick to hatch weighs in at just 68g and has been named Panay, after an island in the Philippines. All of the new penguin chicks have been named after Southeast Asian islands to coincide with the zoo’s soon-to-be opened Islands exhibit.
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
A woman has lost over 13st after beating her addiction to POTATOES .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
When personal trainer, Victoria Spence dreamt of achieving a thigh gap, she didn't realise her obsession would leave her body gripped by anorexia .
A Game of Thrones obsessed couple have fallen in love after meeting at a comic convention dressed as lovestruck characters Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drago .
N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .
The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .
A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .
A young mum has told how a phantom pregnancy almost destroyed her dream of having a second child .