Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .

A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .

A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .

THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .

IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - WAVE-ING GOODBYE TO RUSH HOUR: WHILE most workers endure commuting chaos by road or rail everyday, one entrepreneur has come up with a novel way to get to the office - by KAYAK .

INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .

A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .

One sheepdog is taking a well-deserved rest after giving birth to a whole WHEELBARROW-FUL of puppies .

A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .

WITH the mystical clouds forming a thick blanket and the electrifying lights below, these stunning pictures provide a unique view of the cityscape of Dubai taken from the tallest building in the world .