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

An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .

Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .

A CHEEKY snail fancies his chances at getting a free ride on a sunny afternoon .

THIS cheeky gorilla tries his best to wriggle free from his mum .

From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .

HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .

Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

CCTV stills of the sickening attack .

A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .