A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her. While most children dream of a white Christmas, eight-year-old Lola Dyer, dreads the chilly days. The schoolgirl suffers from a condition called cold urticaria and being outside for just a few minutes leaves her with painful rashes all over her body. The allergy is so bad it has even landed her in hospital after she developed breathing difficulties.
A woman who has suffered over 200 allergic reactions in seven years, has been crowned a BEAUTY QUEEN .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
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 .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
THESE BREATH-TAKING photographs show the natural beauty of Iceland's most famous waterfall .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .