A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .
Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .
A woman was diagnosed with cancer after a cyst left her so bloated medics were convinced she was pregnant .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .
Two sisters from Hampshire who suffered botched nose jobs have spent £19 .
LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .