Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground. Wearing her leopard print skirt and sparkly pink tights, six year-old Maci's big personality still commands the room- despite the 18-24 months label. The tiny school girl stands at just 99cm tall and weighs less than two stone - the same size as a toddler. Maci, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, suffers from a rare genetic condition called Russell-Silver Syndrome, a form of primordial dwarfism that affects 1 in 100,000 babies.
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .
A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .
At first glance it might look like someone has taken their revenge on the makers of those infuriating insurance ads .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
A woman has lost a massive 15st after beating her addiction to cheese .