Jemma Rixon, 20, was working a night shift alone at the Potens residential home in Birkenhead, Merseyside when she was attacked by schizophrenic resident, Craig Cantwell, in July 2013. After the 30-year-old patient tried to attack her, she managed to fight him off and fled to an adjoining bathroom. But he battered his way through the wall with a chair leg to try and continue the assault where she hid.

In a highly-emotional speech at a rally in Glasgow, Vicki Greig, 28, told how her mother had only been able to walk her down the aisle when she tied the knot on Sunday thanks to the expert NHS care she received to treat breast cancer. Miss Greig condemned SNP claims about the privatisation of the NHS by London were 'dishonest, unethical and wrong', and had been made while Mr Salmond was secretly planning £500million in in cuts if he wins independence.

After the ominous vision first appeared in a cloud and then a piece of chicken from KFC, web users reacted by posting jokey pictures of their own 'revelations'. They include photographs of Britain appearing in pieces of bread, puddle and lumps of grilled cheese. But perhaps the most impressive was no accident - it is in fact an edible map of Britain made by a former contestant on The Great British Bake Off.

Pictures show Daniele Watts straddling her boyfriend Brian James Lucas in the car while the couple steady themselves with their hands on the car sunroof. Eyewitness accounts suggest that Watts was grinding on top of her boyfriend with her shirt pulled up and her breasts exposed. Watts has insisted that she did nothing wrong before LAPD officers questioned and detained her.

Officers had claimed they had 'strong evidence' linking six migrant workers to the deaths of David Miller (top right) and Hannah Witheridge (bottom right), whose semi-naked bodies were discovered on a beach in Koh Tao, Thailand, on Monday, and were continuing to question British brother Christopher (left) and James Ware, from Jersey. But today they admitted DNA samples from Ms Witheridge's body and a cigarette butt found near the scene did not match any of the 12 suspects so far - including the Ware brothers.

The footage shows the Ford Fiesta veering in front of the lorry, before screeching to a halt, bringing traffic to a stand-still on the busy A53 dual carriageway in Etruria, Staffordshire. The driver cuts up the HGV before it collides with the back of his car sending it rolling up the road with the door wide open.

A brave young teenager who recorded himself as he came out to his mother got the shock of his life when his mother told him she had been in a same-sex relationship. YouTube user Hayden Smith uploaded a video that shows him as he emotionally reveals to his mother that he is a homosexual, and then shows his mother sharing her little secret as well. This revelation is meet with stunned silence by the boy

The father-of-two, who gave up spending Christmas with his own family in order to carry out charity work in Syria, looks relaxed as he speaks to fellow volunteers - just 24 hours before he was seized by jihadists. The video, which was shown tonight on Channel 4 News, shows Mr Henning sitting in a Turkish fast food restaurant on Christmas Day as he speaks to six other aid workers who affectionately call him 'Gadget'. The men spend time praising the work of Mr Henning, who was embarking on his fourth aid convoy into the conflict-torn region. They describe the 47-year-old as an 'inspiration' and praise his commitment to his work. At one point one of his colleagues reaches across to give Mr Henning a hug (right), while another shakes his hand. But just hours after he was filmed looking relaxed and happy, Mr Henning, from Eccles, Salford, was snatched by brutal Islamic State militants while attempting to deliver aid. The 47-year-old now faces death at the hands of ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John', who was seen in a more recent video threatening to behead the aid worker.

Mary Monaghan, 64, from Massachusetts, was two when she was taken from her Irish mother and sent to live with an American couple in California. But Ms Monaghan's adoptive father, William O'Brien, turned out to be a brutal paedophile who sexually abused her throughout her childhood leaving her suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and flashbacks.

Former record label boss Kevin Rea, 55, had taken apart some kitchen cupboards in his house in Altcar, Lancashire, when he found the six-inch skeleton in what he called a 'cocoon-like nest'. Mr Rea, who has lived at the house on the Leverhulme Estate with his wife, George, 47, and son, Eden, 13, for five years, said he took a picture before throwing it away. He added: 'When I saw it, I thought of the alien that bursts out of John Hurt's chest in the Ridley Scott film.'

Northern Europeans (left) have more indigenous hunter DNA while southern Europeans (right) have more DNA from the Middle East. However, all Europeans have been found to have DNA from a third mystery group: Northern Eurasians. This group appears to have contributed DNA to present-day Europeans as well as to the people who travelled across the Bering Strait into the Americas more than 15,000 years ago, according to a study by Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Katy Bedford from Salisbury, Wilts, first went under the knife in 1986. The retired actress claims she will keep having procedures until she is 100 years old to get rid of the dreaded 'turkey neck.' The mother-of-one said: 'I just love it when the surgery is over and there's a three pounds of Katy left on the table. I think it's obvious that I must have had work done - nobody looks like this naturally.'

Michael Redman, of Ash, Surrey, first became a father aged 21. Now 59, he has since fathered a further 25 children with nine different women, including seven with his current partner. It was reported today that the 'charismatic and charming' bus driver met some of his lovers after getting chatting to them from the cab of his buses.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Stanton was hit under the left eye by a fastball and bleeding from the face, but he has posted new pictures that show he is recovering well. He was driven off the field in an ambulance Thursday night. An announcement is to be made on Wednesday as to whether he will be able to continue to play again before the season ends, although his manage believes that it is extremely doubtful.

The patient for the trial at Oxford University was named as Ruth Atkins, 48, an NHS communications manager. She said: 'I feel absolutely fine, it felt no different to being vaccinated before going on holiday. It's that one step and I'm part of that first step.' She was only accepted for the trial on Monday after completing screening tests last week, and will keep a diary of her side effects over the next eight weeks and undergo regular blood tests.

Twenty-three-year-old twins Lewis and Owen Harrison, from Leeds, boast matching vital statistics thanks to identical work out regimes and diets. Even when the pair are apart, they plan their meals in advance and remain in constant contact. As a result the brothers have a matching arm circumference of  18 inches, a strapping chest size of 44 inches, and weigh 13 stone. The personal trainers, and fitness models, say their painstaking identical lives help them stay in shape. Lewis said: 'Any dumbbell Owen does, I will do too. We're exactly the same.' 

Becky Owen, 31, from Alton in Hampshire couldn't stop eating unhealthy foods and bigger portions and soon reached her heaviest weight at 15 and a half stone. Fed up of feeling unhealthy, the marketing event planner decided to take drastic action. In just nine months, Becky lost over four stone, went down to a size 12 and got engaged

One room at the Queen's Hotel in Crystal Palace had nine people living in it and there were at least four people bedding down in most of the building's other rooms. The local MP has hit out at the Home Office after the huge influx of newcomers caused anger in the local area. The Home Office insists it is doing all it can to reduce the number of people housed in the buildings after details of the council's inspection came to light.

If you are planning a trip away and have money to burn you might want to take a look. These are the top 24 first class cabins in the world and boast everything from showers and chefs to champagne to caviar. But who came top...?

A son has filmed his dad riding an Oculus Rift rollercoaster, with his dad seemingly thrilled by the experience as he's taken round a track. In the video he's shown whooping and cheering throughout the ride. It highlights how unique the headset can be for people who are trying it for the first time. Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset being developed by California's Oculus VR.

Hidden in one of the most comfortable looking chairs in San Luis Obispo, California, is a magician called Rich Ferguson known as The Icebreaker. He is concealed from view by a large pillow strapped to his legs, smaller ones on both his arms and a rug draped over his head, so that you wouldn't even know he was there.

The explosion (right) was carried out by army experts this afternoon after police sealed off a semi-detached home in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where a cache of wartime explosives and memorabilia were discovered in a garage (left). A 48-year-old man, named locally as Alan Tissington, has been arrested on suspicion of obtaining the historic objects by way of illegal metal detecting from a prisoner of war camp in the UK. It is a criminal offence to retrieve artefacts from the ground through using a metal detector if the land is a protected site or without permission of the landowner.