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.
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .
