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.
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
THROWING himself off 1,100ft bridges in a wheelchair, this is the PARALYSED base jumper who knows no fear .
A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
A mum-of-three lost 10 stone after her son asked if she was pregnant .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .