A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .

ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .

THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .

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

A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .

A grandmother has told how she has been unable to feel emotion for the last 12 years thanks to heart drugs she had to take in order to survive .

Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .

WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .

WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .