Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground. Wearing her leopard print skirt and sparkly pink tights, six year-old Maci's big personality still commands the room- despite the 18-24 months label. The tiny school girl stands at just 99cm tall and weighs less than two stone - the same size as a toddler. Maci, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, suffers from a rare genetic condition called Russell-Silver Syndrome, a form of primordial dwarfism that affects 1 in 100,000 babies.
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TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
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A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
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A woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .
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An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .