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.
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
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FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .