A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned. Named The Rest, the Grade II listed building in Porthcawl, Wales was built as a convalescent hotel in the early 1860s. It was subsequently used as an auxiliary military hospital from 1915. Between World War I and II, the hospital provided care for more than 2,500 wounded soldiers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The Rest, which sits on a clifftop overlooking Rest Bay, returned to civilian use as a convalescent hotel in 1946, before it closed in 2013. Photographer Shaun Ashford, 25, of Cardiff, Wales, visited the historic site and captured the Victorian building’s empty interiors.
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A grandma who lost almost 12 stone after undergoing a gastric bypass has revealed that she now gets chatted up by men half her age .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
A brave cricket takes his chances as he sits on top of this green papua tree frog .
This Robin Reliant appears to have taken a wrong turn after it ended up 15 feet high up in a TREE .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
A couple from Bristol have told that they are often mistaken for father and daughter because of their huge 36 year age gap .