These remarkable photos of Britain’s birds, beasts and beaches have been shortlisted in a competition to celebrate nature photography.

The stunning images of pine martens and puffins, gulls and grouse, deer and dolphins were all contenders in this year’s Scottish Nature Photography Festival contest.

A former MISS ENGLAND has graduated from CAMBRIDGE University – and secured a job as a student doctor in the rival university city of OXFORD.

Carina Tyrrell, 26, has been awarded a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery after studying medicine at the prestigious university for six years

A chef has captured an amazing photo of a TORNADO in the skies over SUFFOLK.

Phil Hannam was taking a break from the kitchen when he saw the tornado spiralling over the small village of Thorpeness.

Tornados are more commonly seen in America and Phil and his colleagues at The Kitchen @ Thorpeness restaurant were stunned to see it circling over their village, which is near the coast..

A Dad whose three-year-old son loves swings has built the UK’s only 360 DEGREE swing in his BACK GARDEN - but his son will have to wait a long time before he can go on it.

The frame is a massive 5.6 metres tall and the axle, which spins him round is five metres high, which means that when Colin swings he towers over his family home in Stanford, Lincolnshire.

These are the first pictures of actress Suranne Jones filming the second series of award-winning BBC drama Doctor Foster. The 38-year-old actress was spotted in Hertfordshire reprising her role as betrayed wife Gemma Foster, a GP who found out her husband had been having an affair with a much younger woman for two years.

Sexy sportsmen and women at Cambridge University have bared their bums and breasts in a naked calendar to raise money for charity.

A photographer has taken a stunning photo of the ruins of Kilchurn Castle reflected in Loch Ewe in Scotland.

A manager of a PENCIL MUSEUM, crazy GOLF fanatic, PREFAB anorak, BARBED WIRE collector, mum with a RAILWAY STATION in her back garden, and a female who obsessively follows BROWN SIGNS are in this year’s calendar.

A new book shows DOGS of all shapes and sizes FLYING through the air – just like the bouncing boxer dog in the John Lewis Christmas advert.

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A photographer has captured the moment 46ft high waves struck Eshaness on the Shetland Islands.

An inventor has built a giant Star Wars AT-ACT in his back garden. Colin Furze, 36, spent a month constructing the huge 5.5 metre tall Imperial Walker, which towers over his house in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

England is not set to have a white Christmas – but SNOW has fallen in the SAHARA desert for only the SECOND time in living memory.

Coldplay have replaced the rock tradition of illuminating the stadium with lighters and mobile phones during big anthems by handing out radio-controlled GLOW BANDS.

A photographer has taken a picture of a beautiful WHITE rainbow in the Scottish mountains. Melvin Nicholson captured a stunning photo of a rare FOG BOW on Rannoch Moor whilst out walking.