THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .

MEET the painter who makes his living squirting paint from his EYES .

CREATED over 60 years ago, this weighty machine was the Photoshop of its time .

Commuters were put in a HOLE lot of trouble after trains were cancelled by a hole created by BADGERS .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

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 .

TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .

AS graffiti goes, this giant mural of a sweet little girl tenderly watering a tree beneath her is a far cry from what you usually see emblazoned across cities .

A mum-of-three lost half of her body weight after her daughter was teased by playground bullies for having a 'fat mum' .