An adorable rescue dog who had her eyes gouged out by thugs in Romania has found a loving home in the UK .

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

EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .

A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .

A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .

When mum-of-three Becky Tully was told she couldn’t have any more children due to health reasons, she refused to give up on having the little girl she had always wanted .

THE UK’S STRONGEST SCHOOLGIRL attributes her success to the bendy-body condition that once left her body wracked in pain .

Meet the Victorian gentleman who could not face sitting next to smelly commuters on the bus - so he dodges danger to go to work on a penny farthing .

IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .

THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .

A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .