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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THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
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Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
Pictures of John Anslow a prisoner who escaped from a prison escort van in North Worcestershire Monday, 23 January .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .