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.
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
A former size 30 comfort-eater ditched her husband and lost over 10st after he called her a 'fat cow' .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
football club has scored an own goal after it had to embarrassingly rename its stadium in honour of the DEVIL .
Amanda Bohm, 22, and her mum, Janet, 58, were the best of friends .
THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .