A little boy was left fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication made his skin fall off in chunks. Five-year-old Ellis Stacey developed a one-in-a-million condition that gripped his body, covering his skin in agonising blisters. Within days, the skin on his face, back, arms and legs had peeled off. His devastated parents, Kayleigh Drayton, 25, and aerospace technician Carl Stacey, 26, were warned that he could die within days as the condition ravaged his body.
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
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 .