A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post. These adorable photographs of two playful bear cubs and their watchful mum were captured by American nature photographer D. Robert Franz, 56, on a visit to Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. 'What we see in these photographs is the interaction between the mother brown bear and her two cubs,' says D. Robert, of Cody, Wyoming.
Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .
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A mum-of-three lost half of her body weight after her daughter was teased by playground bullies for having a 'fat mum' .
A teenage girl has grown back her entire face after being struck down by a rare skin disease .
A man who developed anorexia as a teen has told that dying for 20 minutes helped shock him into recovery .
She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .
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High street giant Harvey Nichols has come under fire for a "disgusting" ad campaign that depicts a woman peeing herself .