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.
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
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 photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .