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

DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .

Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .

WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .

A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .

THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .

STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots .

PEACE and love filled the 1980’s Glastonbury fields as relaxed festival goers kicked back and soaked up the atmosphere .

A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .