A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her. While most children dream of a white Christmas, eight-year-old Lola Dyer, dreads the chilly days. The schoolgirl suffers from a condition called cold urticaria and being outside for just a few minutes leaves her with painful rashes all over her body. The allergy is so bad it has even landed her in hospital after she developed breathing difficulties.
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
