A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .

WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .

A soldier who lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan has found love with a blonde bombshell he met through his newfound passion for rally driving .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

Andrea Kubinova, 30, from London, became great friends with serial killer and necrophiliac, Dennis Nilsen .

Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .

A mother told she had terminal cancer by doctors who ignored her pleas for help 13 times has made a miracle recovery following the UK's first operation of its kind .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .

Marisah pictured today with scarring to her left arm - A mother-of-one has revealed how she almost died after suffering a seizure whilst driving that caused her car to crash into a tree and burst into flames .

A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .