A mother told she had terminal cancer by doctors who ignored her pleas for help 13 times has made a miracle recovery following the UK's first operation of its kind. Ruth McDonagh was repeatedly turned away by medics over the course of two years despite suffering from the classic symptoms of bowel cancer. By the time it was diagnosed, she was told she had just 18 months left to live as a huge tumour in her bowel had grown so large it was almost inoperable. Her only option was a £100,000 operation only available in the US which was certain to leave her paralysed from the waist down. But at the eleventh hour a team of UK doctors trained in the American technique agreed to carry out Ruth's surgery in a 13-hour operation never before carried out in this country.
RACING down the slopes in her tiny ski gear, this TWO-YEAR-OLD girl has already mastered the art of skiing .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
AN Irish woman has become the first adult in the world to receive a revolutionary REMOTE CONTROLLED 'ROBO SPINE', which uses magnets to combat the effects of scoliosis .
Oday she is a picture of health - a happy, smiling child, enjoying life to the full .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A unique business in Birkenhead, Merseyside is sure to leave you HALF-CUT with its unusual pub and barbers combination .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .