Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .

OPEN mouthed and wide eyed this little squirrel appears startled .

FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .

A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .

A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .

A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .

A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .

JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots .