A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING. 52-year-old Andrew Knox, confessed to Carole, 50, when she discovered his stash of skimpy hot pants and pole fitness DVDs at their home in Felixstowe, Suffolk. Determined to improve his health and get fit, Andrew took up pole classes, but did not tell wife Carole, fearing she would demand he hang up his hot pants. Andrew says: "I knew it was an unusual form of fitness and I was worried about what she might think."
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .