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

Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .

A scorned woman sparked a punch-up in an airport after she caught her copper boyfriend returning from a romantic holiday with a female police officer .

FOR most restaurateurs, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ is gospel .

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .

A brave cricket takes his chances as he sits on top of this green papua tree frog .

THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .

HEARTWARMING belongings lie abandoned in this eerie former dairy farm which has been left to crumble away for decades .

POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .