Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .

WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .

An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .

A Zumba-mad grandma has lost almost 14st after becoming addicted to the popular dance craze .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

A bear cub unwinds in a forest in eastern Finland by practicing yoga with a series of stretches .

Forget One Direction and Cheryl Cole, a new calendar is celebrating Britain's real heroes - the nation's most inspiring mums .

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .

TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .

Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .

A GIRL nicknamed JAWS by bullies who taunted her because of her underbite is em-bracing her new post-surgery life .