A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .

A former takeaway addict, who once weighed 20st, has lost over 8st in a bid to ditch her ‘fat sister’ tag .

When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .

A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .

SPLASHING in the water and fighting in-between rocks, these energetic tigers enjoy their fun-filled morning .

DANCE guru Matt Howes leaves crowds in a spin when he gets behind the decks - as the world's only one-armed professional DJ .

A mum-of-one has revealed how her one-year-old daughter suffered second and third degree burns to 22% of her body after pouring boiling water over herself .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .