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 .

SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .

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 .

A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .

Oday she is a picture of health - a happy, smiling child, enjoying life to the full .

This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .

THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .

SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .

Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .

CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .