LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London. Aware of her hitchhikers, the female red deer seems unfazed as the starlings arrive. The scene was photographed by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron on a day out in Richmond Park, London. Samuel, of Watford, says: ‘I have seen this behaviour before from starlings, but I have never seen so many on one deer.
THE UK’S STRONGEST SCHOOLGIRL attributes her success to the bendy-body condition that once left her body wracked in pain .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A woman has told how she saved the life of her own rapist after he overdosed on pills shortly after attacking her .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A survivor of abuse has bravely waived her anonymity to tell how she was sexually assaulted from the age of nine - by her depraved grandad .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A British diver has set a new world record for the longest warm water scuba dive by spending a mammoth 49 hours and 56 minutes under water .