A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park. Pictured at the beginning of rutting season, the stag can barely see through a mass of leaves tangled in his antlers as he parades around a small group of deer. The scene was photographed by accountant Val Saxby during an early morning visit to the park, located in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London. The 55-year-old, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, says: “I spotted the stag with six females amongst an avenue of trees in the park."
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The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .
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The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .
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Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
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A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
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