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.
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
Britons have finally received some good news about the weather with temperatures expected to reach 30 degrees this weekend .
Made up of 40,000 pieces, putting in over 200 hours of work and blunting endless blades, this is the final result for the world’s largest jigsaw, finally finished on Wednesday .
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .
A scorned woman sparked a punch-up in an airport after she caught her copper boyfriend returning from a romantic holiday with a female police officer .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .
A medical student has gone from chunky to hunky after being dumped by his ex- girlfriend for being too 'chubby' .
Giancarlo pictured at home during his recovery, wearing his compression garments - A mother-of-three has revealed how her 10-month-old son was severely burnt at nursery .