HOTSPOT MEDIA - LETHAL BIRTHMARK NEARLY SUFFOCATES GIRL: Zoe Mitchell when she was two-weeks-old .

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 .

A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .

RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .

SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .

A woman with an irrational fear of toilets goes POTTY on the loo and runs away when she flushes, terrified it will swallow her up .

A world's first restaurant has opened in Canada, where having your order fall on deaf ears is a good thing .

A teenager bullied for having birthmarks all over her body now hopes to become a Hollywood actress to show girls that beauty comes from being unique .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

A mother-of-four has revealed how her daughter was stabbed to death by her ex partner, while their horrified children watched on .

Most women would jump at the chance to put on some lipstick, sling on a pair of heels and head out for a romantic meal with their other half .