A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .

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

Meet the Victorian gentleman who could not face sitting next to smelly commuters on the bus - so he dodges danger to go to work on a penny farthing .

A helicopter has crashed landed in Central London .

A mum-of-two has revealed how her childhood friend of 20 years attacked her with a cosh and broke her nose in a vicious attack .

A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .

Andrea Kubinova, 30, from London, became great friends with serial killer and necrophiliac, Dennis Nilsen .

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

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

A woman has told how she fled to Australia, after a one night stand burned down her house .

At first glance it might look like someone has taken their revenge on the makers of those infuriating insurance ads .