From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States. The breath-taking images were taken by Randy P. Martin, 30, of Portland, Oregon, who travelled hundreds of miles across America and documented the most diverse and beautiful settings along the way. For Randy, the past year has seen him undertake countless road trips, navigate his route with maps made from napkins - with the help of Google Earth, walk miles across fields of lava rock and wake at 3am to see sunrise at 14,000 feet
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A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .
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A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .
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A little boy aged FIVE bravely delivered his newborn brother - then promptly saved his life .
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