A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages. Claire Dodd, 41, from Manchester, was left infertile aged 21 after having her fallopian tubes and ovaries removed due to cysts. After years of IVF waiting lists and failed adoption attempts, Claire applied for a grant from Salford Primary Care Trust and won two fully funded IVF cycles as a single person. Now the new mum has just celebrated her daughter, Amberley’s first birthday after waiting 20 years to become a parent.
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An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
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Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
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RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .