Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror. She had every reason to be proud. In the space of a year, she had lost an incredible 17 stone. Her weight dropped from 37st 1lbs to 19st 7lbs, and she slipped into a dress before gazing at her newly svelte figure. With her smokey eye makeup and black skater dress, she could have been glamming up for a night on the tiles with her girlfriends. Instead, it was Halloween, 2013, and Ava was hiding a huge secret. Born a boy named William, it was the first time she had ever dressed as a girl – and everything fell into place.
HEARTWARMING belongings lie abandoned in this eerie former dairy farm which has been left to crumble away for decades .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .
A former chocolate addict, who used to gobble more than a THOUSAND bars a year, has shed an astonishing 10st after giving up her favourite treats .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
A woman who was cyberstalked before being shot and paralysed by her ex-husband is campaigning to raise awareness for stalking victims .
A terrifying prankster has given unsuspecting urban explorers the fright of their lives .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
FOR most restaurateurs, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ is gospel .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .