An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model. Pretty Taylor Crisp, 19, from Leicester, was born with femur fibula ulna syndrome, which left her with a shortened femur on her right leg, no kneecap or ankle and a missing toe. After contracting an infection in her right leg, Taylor was forced to choose between life in a wheelchair or amputation.
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
CREATED over 60 years ago, this weighty machine was the Photoshop of its time .
Red squirrels are well known for their intelligence and curiosity but when one snapper caught this furry little guy trying to take his own self-portrait he couldn't help but be taken aback .
A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .
A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
When Janet Curry, 38, was told she was ‘too big to date’ by a man she met on the dating website Plenty of Fish, she didn’t let it stop her from looking for love .