A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .

LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .

More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .

A former chocolate addict, who used to gobble more than a THOUSAND bars a year, has shed an astonishing 10st after giving up her favourite treats .

THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .

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 .

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

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 .

SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for this greedy camel he can't get enough of his morning feed, as he gate crashes his owner's mealtime .

A transgender woman has beaten the bullies after spending £25K on surgery to become a beauty pageant queen .

The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .