A woman with an irrational fear of toilets goes POTTY on the loo and runs away when she flushes, terrified it will swallow her up .

If you're ever struggling to find a use for your old VHS tapes you might want to take a tip from this innovative artist .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .

LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .

WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .

The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .