A 26-year-old lawyer is feeding herself with food saved from skips and recycled bones from her local butcher to get through a challenge to survive on a budget of just £1 a day. Alice Biggar, of Southampton, decided to save the pennies and give up expensive grub for an entire month. She said: “I wanted…
Handbuild beach hotel
An adventurous couple are celebrating now they have opened an idyllic beachfront hotel which they created from scratch. Michael Airhart and his wife Aileen built the Gecko Rock Resort over a period of two-and-a-half years, managing construction themselves and hiring help for only nine months of the building process. The couple, who have been married…
Paralysed by sore throat
Watch as young woman learns to walk again after she was left paralysed from the neck down – by a common winter cold. When Laura Clarke, 21, visited the doctor with a sore throat she thought a few days in bed was all she needed to get better. But medics found an abscess on her…
Zombie apocalypse slimmer
An obese mother-of-one lost seven stone after being inspired by ZOMBIES. Siobhan Maccow, 27, went on her brutal “zombie apocalypse diet” as a tribute to her favourite character from television show The Walking Dead. Ms Maccow, who has a six-year-old daughter, Milly, was 17st 7lb and wore size 18 clothing when she decided she wanted…
Wedding diet
A receptionist who was terrified of losing her man on their first date because she was fat is preparing to marry him now she has lost nearly EIGHT stone. Zoe Salter, 26, who at her heaviest weighed 17st 12lb, was convinced her partner Liam Blake, 27, a retail manager, would run out on their first…
Changing room slimmer
A woman who lost control of her weight following a divorce slimmed down FIVE dress sizes after the sight of her reflection in a changing room mirror made her “recoil in horror”. Yvonne Asare, 31, reached size 18 amid the breakdown of her marriage in 2010. After an embarrassing incident in a shop changing room,…
Mature lingerie model
A mother-of-two bounced back from divorce and depression to become a lingerie model – aged 48. Carol Dunster, from St. Austell, has amazed her friends and family with her racy photos, which she posed for as a way of regaining her confidence. She said: “When my marriage broke down I cried enough tears to fill…
Blind brothers’ road trip
Two brothers with a devastating degenerative eye disease completed a once-in-a-lifetime road trip across the USA to see the sights before they both turn blind. Justin Purvis, 38, and Tod Purvis, 43, have choroideremia, an inherited disorder which causes progressive loss of vision. Medics have warned the pair that the disease is likely to cause…
Ultimate £80,000 bike tour
At the staggering cost of more than £80,000, could this be the ultimate cycling holiday? While most holidaymakers would be content with tow paths and an occasional pub lunch, a luxury travel company is hoping to attract couples with the chance to pedal around the 12 most fashionable cities in the world – at an…
Basement log cabin
Is this the ultimate ‘man cave’? A father-of-eight built an entire log cabin, complete with a window overlooking the wild frontier, in the BASEMENT of his suburban family home. Dennis Martin, 49, converted his drab basement into an authentic 1950s log cabin complete with rifles in racks, a mounted deer head above the fireplace and…
