AN underground HOBBIT motel inspired by JRR Tolkien is just one of the unique places to stay at the world's most unusual hotel complex .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

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

A support worker was stunned to discover she was eight months pregnant after she was rushed to hospital with 'stomach cramps' .

A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .

Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .

A schoolboy is the envy of his friends due to a one in 14-million condition which means he can only eat FRY-UPS to survive .

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

AN expectant mum suffered crippling contractions lasting a gruelling two months, due to complications from a rare condition .

An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .