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.
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .
COULD this £5,000 auction of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool front door be the most bizarre celebrity sale yet? The door, which looks-like it may have been knocked – and possibly kicked – very hard during its past, was used by members of Britain’s most famous band to visit lead-singer Paul McCartney when he lived at the address from 1955 to 1964 .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .
THESE BREATH-TAKING photographs show the natural beauty of Iceland's most famous waterfall .
From a platter of finger licking chicken wings to a bowl of Chinese noodle soup, these foodie snaps are enough to make your savoury saliva glands drool .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .