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.
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
FROM COLOURFUL autumn leaves to living trees at first glance you might miss these people blended with nature .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
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 .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
