A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia. Kayleigh-Emma Shiel, 30, has always dreamed of becoming a mother, but suffers from tokophobia – a fear of childbirth. Her condition means that she is unable to conceive a child of her own as she is too terrified of pregnancy and the associated pain. Believing that adoption was her only chance of becoming a mother, Kayleigh and her fabricator husband Gary, 47, applied to adopt a child in January this year. But the couple, from Elland, West Yorkshire, were rejected partly due to Kayleigh’s unusual phobia.
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .
FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .