FIVE-WEEK-OLD NEWBORN IS UK’S YOUNGEST BEAUTY PAGEANT BABY
A five-week-old newborn from Fife has become the UK’s youngest beauty pageant baby. Adorable Matilda Mackie, now 10 weeks old, sent competition judges ga-ga and scored second place in a national beauty pageant held in Glasgow. Doting mum Jennifer Mackie, 31, from Glenrothes, Fife, entered her daughter into the competition determined to beat her best friend Amanda Collins. The 29-year-old’s daughter, Luna, now one, became the youngest tot in the UK to enter a beauty pageant at just six weeks old last year. Incredibly, Matilda participated in her first beauty pageant at just five weeks and six days old, beating the former title holder’s record….
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FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
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SLAM DUNK DA FISH
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BOY WHOSE BRAIN GREW IN NOSE IS REAL-LIFE PINOCCHIO
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THE F-ANT-ASTIC ARTISTS
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WORLD'S CRAZIEST BEARDS
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UNUSUAL ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
NEW FLEECE OF LIFE FOR WHEEL CHAIR SHEEP
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ADORABLE HARVEST MOUSE CLIMBS DANDELION
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THE BEAUTIFUL MOSQUE OF COLOURS
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