A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography. Climbing up a tiny set of makeshift stairs, the bushy-tailed rodent carefully inspects a camera before observing the colourful autumnal view. Behind a different camera, 48-year-old photographer Geert Weggen captured the scene in his garden in Bispgarden, Sweden. Geert says: "Seeing the little squirrel behind the camera was really amusing."
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A former soldier who bravely took on penny-pinching NHS bosses in his fight against terminal cancer has died, aged 37 .
The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .
WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
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 .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .