A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia. Kayleigh-Emma Shiel, 30, has always dreamed of becoming a mother, but suffers from tokophobia – a fear of childbirth. Her condition means that she is unable to conceive a child of her own as she is too terrified of pregnancy and the associated pain. Believing that adoption was her only chance of becoming a mother, Kayleigh and her fabricator husband Gary, 47, applied to adopt a child in January this year. But the couple, from Elland, West Yorkshire, were rejected partly due to Kayleigh’s unusual phobia.
A 21st stone woman suffering from 'body blindness' like Dawn French shed more than half her body weight after a shock revelation brought her to her senses .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
A mother-of-four has revealed how her daughter was stabbed to death by her ex partner, while their horrified children watched on .