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.
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These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
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A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
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A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
Primed and ready for action, this collection of striking images from the battlefield could be mistaken for authentic photos taking during World War II .
