She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .

Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .

SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .

Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .

A couple have got engaged after the bride-to-be’s boyfriend set her a Facebook ‘likes’ challenge .

While the various controversies rumble on regarding transport, security issues and overly-officious copyright enforcement, a couple of designers is saying what we're all thinking about the Olympics - and putting it on bags .

Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .

The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .

HEARTWARMING belongings lie abandoned in this eerie former dairy farm which has been left to crumble away for decades .

BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .