A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral. Niamh Wynne, 18, from Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, developed a deadly obsession with calories after learning about them in a GCSE biology lesson. The then-overweight teenager soon became addicted to counting calories and over the next three years shed an astonishing 7st 7lb. At her worst, she weighed just 7st 6lb. A doctor warned her that she would either end up 'in hospital or in a coffin', so her devastated mum began planning her funeral. Now fully recovered, the carer says that almost dying gave her the wakeup call she needed to overcome anorexia.
A Hereford woman has lost 10st 3lbs after ditching her £260-a-month takeaway habit .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
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IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
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