An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .

FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

A teenager bullied for having birthmarks all over her body now hopes to become a Hollywood actress to show girls that beauty comes from being unique .

WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .

SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .

A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .

She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .

A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica .

Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .