A widow whose love rat ex-boyfriend left her homeless has had the last laugh after a judge ordered her ex to pay back £300,000. Lyn Walcott, 68, of Hadleigh, Essex, was forced to move in with friends after she lent money to her boyfriend of seven years, Martin Forster, 57, to pay off debts and buy stock for his jewellery business. The mother-of two met Martin, a professional gambler, on a blind date in March 2005, and the couple quickly became an item.
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
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 .
The sun is finally out, bringing a smile to many people’s faces – including this cute little dormouse’s! Grinning from ear to ear, this tiny dormouse appears to have been tickled by something as it clambered up this flower, basking in the sunshine, whilst having a little laugh to himself .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .