A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral. Niamh Wynne, 18, from Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, developed a deadly obsession with calories after learning about them in a GCSE biology lesson. The then-overweight teenager soon became addicted to counting calories and over the next three years shed an astonishing 7st 7lb. At her worst, she weighed just 7st 6lb. A doctor warned her that she would either end up 'in hospital or in a coffin', so her devastated mum began planning her funeral. Now fully recovered, the carer says that almost dying gave her the wakeup call she needed to overcome anorexia.
A family of foster carers are facing bankruptcy and homelessness after they signed up to a Government scheme to renovate their house to be used for disabled children's short breaks .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
GLIDING through the water, these delightful frogs show off their vibrant colours as they practice their FROG crawl .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
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 COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .