HMS Ark Royal arrives in the Turkish port of Aliaga at the ship scrapping firm Leyal’s yard. The former flagship of the Royal Navy will now be turned into slabs of steel and sold by the Kilo. The 22,000 ton ship, which carried 22 aircraft and had a complement of 1,051, was retired five years ahead of schedule in 2011, a high-profile casualty of the government’s controversial defence cuts. Tears were shed when, after more than a quarter of a century of service, Britain’s most famous warship left Portsmouth last month and began her final solemn journey.The mighty aircraft carrier was sold to ship recycling firm Leyal for £2.9m, where it now faces the ultimate indignity of being taken apart like a scrapped second hand car.
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A mum-of-two has revealed how she accidentally set her face on fire while lighting a cigarette .
Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
A woman who blew £12k of her student loan on junk food and booze has lost 10st after ditching her unhealthy habits .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
A mum who has hid behind the hair loss condition alopecia for the last 20 years has bravely revealed a secret compulsion to tear out her own hair that has tormented her since she was a child .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .