The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .

A woman who was addicted to eating curries has shed an impressive 8st after giving up her favourite food .

THROWING himself off 1,100ft bridges in a wheelchair, this is the PARALYSED base jumper who knows no fear .

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .

More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .

FLAMINGOS from above look like the pink algae they eat .

Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .

LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .

SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .

She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .