A BLIND school-girl whose growth has been stunted by a rare medical condition is finding her feet again with the help of a specially made mini-cane.At just 34in tall, little Lexi Drake struggled to get by using even the smallest of white stick’s because it was too big for her tiny body.She is overshadowed by her friends as cute Lexi is the height of a two-year-old because she is one of the few people in the country to be affected by Turner‘s Syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality in which all or part of one of the sex chromosomes is absent.Her mum Anna had taken her to the opticians after she crawled into a table when she was a tot, fearing she may have problems with her eyes. She was told Lexi simply needed glasses, but two weeks later she devastatingly found out her daughter was in fact blind.
Ashlee, 20, has always known that she was supposed to be a girl .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
In May 2021, on the night when Jayde Logan, 31, rekindled her relationship with her ex, she ended up scarred for life .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
Meet the dog-loving woman who spends £20k a year looking after her 30 pet PUGS .
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 .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .