POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .

A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .

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

A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - BEAUTY QUEEN ACID SCARE: Miss England finalist, Karla Fitzpatrick, 19, at the Miss England contest .

THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .

ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .

A Crohn's sufferer has told of her humiliation after she soiled herself when a Co-op staff member reportedly refused to let her use the toilet .

A woman has lost an incredible 13st after a group of men cruelly threw a kebab at her as she walked down the street .

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .

When mum-of-three Becky Tully was told she couldn’t have any more children due to health reasons, she refused to give up on having the little girl she had always wanted .