When Janet Curry, 38, was told she was ‘too big to date’ by a man she met on the dating website Plenty of Fish, she didn’t let it stop her from looking for love. After going through a divorce and battling a painful abdominal disorder, the professional makeup artist and mum-of-one knew that she could handle anything. But at 22.5st and a size-30, there was just one thing in the way of finding Mr Right. So a determined Janet vowed to shed the pounds to gain a man. She has now dropped 11.5st and an astonishing NINE dress sizes to slim down to a perfect size-12. Plus she’s bagged a hunky fella to boot.
A little boy whose brain grew inside his nose has been described as the 'real-life Pinocchio' by his proud mum .
A mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants .
A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .
LOCATIONS bursting with vibrant greens and chestnut browns, these photographs capture the peaceful English countryside in all its glory .
A shoe designer from London has spent a whopping £30,000 on Hello Kitty memorabilia .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .