OPEN mouthed and wide eyed this little squirrel appears startled .

Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .

WITHOUT a care in the world, this little chimpanzee shows off her gymnastic skills as she swings around her enclosure .

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .

STANDING on its hind legs, a nosey polar bear presses its paws against the window of a truck and takes a peek at the tourist inside .

A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .

SPLASHING in the water and fighting in-between rocks, these energetic tigers enjoy their fun-filled morning .

This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .

PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .