Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror. She had every reason to be proud. In the space of a year, she had lost an incredible 17 stone. Her weight dropped from 37st 1lbs to 19st 7lbs, and she slipped into a dress before gazing at her newly svelte figure. With her smokey eye makeup and black skater dress, she could have been glamming up for a night on the tiles with her girlfriends. Instead, it was Halloween, 2013, and Ava was hiding a huge secret. Born a boy named William, it was the first time she had ever dressed as a girl – and everything fell into place.
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
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 .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
Clinging on to their furry backs, mischievous monkeys appeared to enjoy the free transport as they rode around on a perturbed Capybara .
A British photographer has captured the beauty of London in a stunning series of landscapes shots .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .