A Crohn's sufferer has slammed doctors who allegedly accused her of being anorexic after she lost 10st in just three months. Kirsty Watson, 20, was gobsmacked when GPs referred her to an eating disorder clinic after she complained of extreme weight loss, sickness and fatigue - all common symptoms of the inflammatory digestive condition, Crohn's disease. The budding journalist from St Helens, Merseyside, could barely leave the house as she suffered from agonising stomach cramps and was violently sick up to ten times a day.
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 .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .