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| Wheeliebun.Woolley, a three year old dwarf lop eared rabbit fitted with wheels. |
| WHEN Woolley the rabbit suffered from an infection in his back legs, his owners were reluctant to have him put down.
Owner Carla Foulger was determined to put the hop back into Woolley’s stride.
So she discovered a company that made wheelchairs for dogs - and asked if they could have one custom made to fit Woolley, a three year old dwarf lop eared rabbit.
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| Miracle baby who survived an operation to remove a 9Ib tumour from his mother’s stomach. |
| This is the miracle baby who survived an operation to remove a 9Ib tumour from his mother’s stomach whilst he was in the womb.
Doctors told his mother Lindsay Arnold that the risky operation whilst she was 24 weeks pregnant may trigger an early labour. |
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| Kate McAlpine from luxurious lifestyle to help save the street children of Tanzania. |
| WHEN Kate McAlpine was growing up and enjoying a priveliged childhood, she had no idea that one day she would be living amongst African street children.
A member of the wealthy building family McAlpine, she has now put aside that luxurious lifestyle that she was used to, to help save the street children of Tanzania. ( africa , aid , africa , orphan , poverty, scottish , scotland ) |
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| Hippo with a giant tortoise for a "mum". |
| WHEN Owen the baby hippo was washed into the sea after the devastating tsunami, his chances of survival were limited.
He had become separated from his mother and the remaining hippos within his pod, and at just 12 months old was unable to swim to safety.
So when rangers from the Kenyan Wildlife Service rescued him from his plight and took him to the safety of a wildlife reserve, tiny Owen decided to take matters into his own hands.
His gaze fell on Mzee - not another hippo - but a giant tortoise. And he quickly decided the tortoise would make the perfect mother figure to follow around. |
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| A legacy of life. Boy saves seven lives with his organs. |
| After losing their son Nicholas in a fatal drive-by shooting whilst on holiday- a horrific event that captured the attention of the world - many parents would want to get on with their lives and not be reminded of that fateful day of horror on a dusty Italian road.
But not Reg and Maggie Green made the brave decision to donate his organs for transplantation.
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| 15 years without child couple decided to have one last try at IVF treatment. |
| FOR 15 years Amanda Fulwell and her husband Simon had been desperate to start a family.
Mrs Fulwell had tried numerous fertility drugs, had undergone extensive investigations and had to be hospitalised after her lungs collapsed due to fertility treatment.
The couple had almost given up after 15 years, when they decided to have one last try at IVF treatment.
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| Siamese twins dance and run after doctors said they would never walk. |
| Siamese twins Eman and Sanchia prepared to go through the pioneering 16 hour operation to separate them as they lay joined at the spine in December 2001, doctors warned their parents that they might never walk. But the operation was a success and now Sanchia and Eman have defied doctors to take their first steps a fortnight ago, in time to celebrate their second birthday.
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| HORROR CRASH BRIDE RECOVERS TO WALK UP THE AISLE. |
| Christine’s body was shattered. She had a broken right arm and left leg and pelvis, sprained ankle and lacerations of her liver and kidney and bladder and she had bit her tongue virtually in half. She had hit the ground with the same force as falling of a house roof.The nurses said that I would never walk again.
"I said I would only marry him if I could walk down the aisle, so that gave me a goal to aim for."
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| Tina Nichols , half a billion to one cancer fight. |
| WHEN Tina Nichols was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 24, she thought she had been unlucky.
After she fought through the disease with lifesaving chemotherapy treatment, she finally thought she could get on with her life.
But in chances of half a billion to one, she was struck down with a different form of cancer earlier this year, at the age of 37.
Against all the odds she has now battled through this cancer too - and has just been given the all clear.
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| Connor has been fitted with a new pair of feet and limb experts are also making him a new hand. |
| WHEN brave Connor Ankers was born he had no hands or feet.
The doctors were unable to explain to his devastated parents why their baby had been born with just stumps.
But now three months ago brave Connor has been fitted with a new pair of feet and limb experts are also making him a new hand. |
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