A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

MEET the painter who makes his living squirting paint from his EYES .

The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .

Britons have finally received some good news about the weather with temperatures expected to reach 30 degrees this weekend .

A woman was diagnosed with cancer after a cyst left her so bloated medics were convinced she was pregnant .

STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .

FEAST your eyes onthe £3K luxury yurts that rock legend Mick Jagger will be basking in between Glastonbury performances this weekend .

A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .

Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .

These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .

A grandmother has told how she has been unable to feel emotion for the last 12 years thanks to heart drugs she had to take in order to survive .