A 21st stone woman suffering from 'body blindness' like Dawn French shed more than half her body weight after a shock revelation brought her to her senses. While Georgina Crook had always been overweight, she was never bullied at school, never heard a cruel comment in passing and enjoyed a loving relationship with her husband.She had always been popular with her friends and, while she admits clothes shopping was a "nightmare", her ever-increasing weight not once posed a problem.But when her eight-year-old son Daniel begged her to join her on a bike ride after receiving a cycle for Christmas, Georgina had a sudden wake-up call.At 21st she was simply too big to physically fit on a bicycle seat and she knew then that she needed to do something about her size
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SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
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AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone .
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A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
