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.
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
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An owl swoops through the air before making an unorthodox landing - right on top of an unsuspecting man's head .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
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A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .
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A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .