A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

A tiny puppy who lost his front legs after being hit by a train has been given and new LEASH of life with a set of wheels .

A retired foster carer has spent a whopping £48k on her brood of lifelike dolls .

Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .

A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .

A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .

BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .