While most Brits look forward to long hot summer days, a mum-of-six will be staying in the shade - as she is allergic to the sun. Laura Martindale, 26, suffers from a severe allergic reaction called Actinic Prurigo, which causes her skin to burn and break out in a rash when exposed to UVA and UVB light. At home, the full-time mum keeps the curtains and blinds closed during the day, and when she steps outside, she is forced to wear long sleeved tops and gloves, as well as high factor 50 suncream.
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
