A little boy was left fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication made his skin fall off in chunks. Five-year-old Ellis Stacey developed a one-in-a-million condition that gripped his body, covering his skin in agonising blisters. Within days, the skin on his face, back, arms and legs had peeled off. His devastated parents, Kayleigh Drayton, 25, and aerospace technician Carl Stacey, 26, were warned that he could die within days as the condition ravaged his body.
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
STAIRWAY obsessed photographers have captured psychedelic shots that will mesmerise you .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
