Mother-of-one Debi Gibson from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, pictured with her husband and daughter centre, starting using sunbeds at the age of 14. The former model, pictured aged 16 right, decided not to use protective goggles when on the sunbed so she would be free of any tan lines. The 42-year-old was diagnosed with rare eye cancer in April 2012 - and has now been given just weeks to live after the disease spread to her liver. She is now calling for sunbeds to be banned.

Kyle Coleman, 27, from Cornwall, has barely spoken since the age of three but has developed a passion for singing and is about to release and album of 12 original songs. His mother, Caroline, says singing makes him more relaxed, less anxious, and has allowed him to communicate with the outside world and make friends for the first time.

EXCLUSIVE: Chloe Ring was born with dual sensory loss, she was deaf and blind. But at the age of 14 months she underwent an operation to have cochlear implants fitted. Now five, and Chloe can talk and is a pupil at a mainstream primary school near the family's Exeter home. Her mother Jane Ring said the operation has changed her daughter's life, opening up endless opportunities. On August 4, 2009 Chloe underwent the five-hour procedure at Bristol's children's hospital. The family had to wait four weeks before they could return for the switch-on. As specialists turned the devices on, one-by-one, Chloe's face lights up and her head starts bobbing as she is immersed in the excitement. Mrs Ring said: 'It is like she was suddenly switched on. She absolutely loved sound, from the moment she was given it.'

Being married a few steps from the intensive care unit at Pennsylvania's Good Samaritan Hospital wasn't how Heather Miller and Brian Neff planned their wedding day, but they were grateful for every moment there. Miller, 37, has been undergoing treatment for bone cancer at the hospital.

Walter Yeo sustained terrible facial injuries including the loss of upper and lower eyelids while manning the guns aboard HMS Warspite in 1916. But in 1917 he was treated by Sir Harold Gillies - the first man to use skin grafts from undamaged areas on the body and known as ‘the father of plastic surgery’. His remarkable transformation features an upcoming exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum which will explore the pioneering efforts to repair the lives of WW1 veterans through plastic surgery. Researchers working on the '1914FACES2014' project for this year’s World War One centenary have appealed for information from any of Mr Yeo’s surviving relatives.

James Prior, 49, from London, rowed from Gran Canaria to Barbados to raise money for research into a cure for Fergus' Crohn's disease - despite never having rowed before. The challenge took 32 days and saw him face a force nine gale in an open-topped rowing boat. He has currently raised more than £100,000 for Crohn's and Colitis UK. He is pictured (left) with Fergus, (top right) greeting his wife, Fiona, in Barbados and (bottom right) arriving in Barbados.

Grace and Olivia Oman, of Morpeth, Northumberland, were both born weighing just 1lb 14oz and for a while it was touch and go as to whether they would survive. While they were separated mother Vicki, 28, tenderly placed a teddy bear wearing Olivia’s clothes in Grace’s incubator so that she would feel as though her sister was close.

Kirsty Hopkins, 22, lost control on a bend after drinking and smoking cannabis and smashed head-on into a car containing Lisa-Marie Stoneley and her family (pictured) in Somerset. Ms Stoneley, a mother-of-two, was in a coma for eight days and spent three months in hospital with swelling on the brain. She suffered two broken legs, ripped cartilage in both knees, multiple fractures and all but one of her vertebrae were damaged or broken. She is now in a wheelchair and has had to abandon her dream of a career in nursing.

Ben Maly, six months old, from Manchester, was born with narrowed arteries and holes in his heart but he is now thriving after four open heart operations. At one point, his heart stopped beating for 15 minutes and doctors had to fight to save him. He is pictured (left) with his sister, Lilly, an parents, Graham and Carrie.

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Sireau, 40, from Cambridge, believes he has found a drug that could prevent Julien and Daniel's Black Bone Disease progressing. The condition causes urine, earwax and bones to turn black (inset).The boys, who are 13 and 10, currently have no symptoms but as they get older they will develop severe early-onset osteoarthritis without treatment. If the drug trial is successful, the pill could be offered to all patients with the same genetic condition.