While most Brits look forward to long hot summer days, a mum-of-six will be staying in the shade - as she is allergic to the sun. Laura Martindale, 26, suffers from a severe allergic reaction called Actinic Prurigo, which causes her skin to burn and break out in a rash when exposed to UVA and UVB light. At home, the full-time mum keeps the curtains and blinds closed during the day, and when she steps outside, she is forced to wear long sleeved tops and gloves, as well as high factor 50 suncream.
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
An American woman whose skin turned silver after using nose drops is warning people of the dangers of medicines containing the metal .
These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .
A mother-of-three has revealed how her nine-month-old daughter was severely burnt after knocking a scalding bottle warmer over herself at daycare .
Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
CRAZY BEARDS come into their GROWN when they've been twisted and waxed into shape .
Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror .