When personal trainer, Victoria Spence dreamt of achieving a thigh gap, she didn't realise her obsession would leave her body gripped by anorexia. In a quest for bone-thin thighs, at her worst, the 20-year-old survived on just 600 calories a day - excessively exercising for over 10 hours a day. By January last year, she weighed a dangerous 5st 8lb - and medics told her unless she started eating more, she would be hospitalised. Care-free and body confident at 16, the pretty blonde from Worsley, Manchester, had always been happy with the way she looked. Standing at 5ft 6in tall, Victoria weighed a healthy 8st 5lb.
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
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An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back .
Amanda Bohm, 22, and her mum, Janet, 58, were the best of friends .
A former soldier who bravely took on penny-pinching NHS bosses in his fight against terminal cancer has died, aged 37 .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
A support worker was stunned to discover she was eight months pregnant after she was rushed to hospital with 'stomach cramps' .