If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .

MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - EVANDER HOLYFIELD VISITS SICK KIDS: Evander Holyfield in Birmingham children's hospital, where he was giving presents to sick kids .

FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .

WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .

Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .

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

A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .

A woman whose daughter committed suicide after being raped as a child, has revealed she donated her organs - saving four peoples’ lives .

A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .