A little boy was left fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication made his skin fall off in chunks. Five-year-old Ellis Stacey developed a one-in-a-million condition that gripped his body, covering his skin in agonising blisters. Within days, the skin on his face, back, arms and legs had peeled off. His devastated parents, Kayleigh Drayton, 25, and aerospace technician Carl Stacey, 26, were warned that he could die within days as the condition ravaged his body.
An American man continues on his mission to document his journey around the globe by completing a world map tattoo on his back .
A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .