Louis Evans, 20, from Lowestoft, Suffolk was picked on throughout his schooldays for his bright ginger hair but has beaten the bullies by forging a successful modelling career. He has appeared in British Vogue and is soon to take on a modelling contract in Milan.

Britain enjoyed a day of sunshine today as bulbs and blossom bloomed - four-year-old Imogen Walker made the most of it in Cambridge University Botanic Garden - but it won't last. The Met Office is forecasting snow across large parts of the country for Friday morning including the south, the Midlands, Wales, and the Pennines, and says the peak time will be during the morning rush-hour. Before that, tomorrow is predicted to bring sunshine and showers.

Polly McCourt, 39, was already in labor on Monday as her doorman tried to hail a cab in Manhattan - but a woman stole the taxi from under his nose. With the baby's head already crowning, Mrs McCourt sat down on the Upper East Side sidewalk and gave birth with the help of passers-by who donated scarves and coats to keep the mom and newborn warm on a 30F day.

Baroness Marie-Claire Von Alvensleben, 60, (right) who lives in Geneva, attacked the man at the exclusive Belgraves Hotel before screaming 'you brown people are ruining Britain'. She then launched into a racist volley against 'blacks, Arabs, Asians and Jews' adding 'n*ggers should not be allowed here'. At Hammersmith Magistrates' Court earlier today she was given a six week prison sentence suspended for a year and fined £165.

John Lowe (right), 82, appeared confused as he stood in the dock and was accused of murdering the two women at his farm (inset) last Sunday. The outburst was made by his stepdaughter, Stacy Banner (left), 38, who had travelled to the court to see him appear before magistrates. Lowe was helped into the dock at Guildford Magistrates' Court by security guards to face the double murder allegations.

A 'notorious and organised' north London gang, was hit by a series of police raids in the early hours of the morning. The raids led to the arrests of 14 people, the seizing of several guns and £300,000 in cash and luxury items. The tightly organised raid, codenamed Operation Octopod, had been in the planning stages by Scotland Yard for months.

The four-minute video was shot in Copenhagen by Arian Kashef and Emil Behrndtz, both 18, where Mr Kashef pretends to abuse his 'girlfriend' on Valentine's Day. Mr Kashef can be heard shouting 'I'm going to kill you!' while also being physically abusive against his pretend partner. Shockingly, it is not until a minute in that a lone man intervenes.The majority do nothing.

Lisa Carrick (left with her husband) insulted the ITV pundit on Twitter (inset) on Tuesday night after he singled out Mr Carrick for criticism following his side's 2-0 defeat to Olympiacos in Greece. After Mr Keane (right) described the team's performance - and Mr Carrick's subsequent interview for ITV - as 'flat', she wrote: 'Roy Keane what a **** says anything to provoke a reaction .. That's all .. Done ..'

John Guest (inset) had left his unique Mercedes Benz SL65 AMG with technicians at a Mercedes dealer near his home in Poole, Dorset. But hours later the garage called to say there had been a crash (main picture). Mr Guest had bought the car for £40 in 2010 and spent £30,000 maintaining it. The semi-retired IT consultant is now considering legal action against Sandown Mercedes which he claims was negligent. The garage insists the car was being driven safely and legally when it crashed.

When Ukraine's fugitive president fled for an unknown destination, he left behind his sprawling luxury estate in Mezhyhirya, an hours drive from Kiev. he property in Mezhyhirya, is packed with riches well beyond the reach of a man with an official salary of less than £15,000. Sculptures worth millions, statues, a white Steinway piano, gold-plated taps, valuable paintings and elegant glass and tableware. He even had personalised bottles of fine brandy featuring his photo.

Kerry Harvey, from Chichester, passed away on Saturday. In the weeks before her death she had told her story on national TV to try and raise awareness of the disease's terrible survival rate. In a statement, Ali Stunt, CEO, Pancreatic Cancer Action, said: 'We were deeply saddened to hear the news that the beautiful and inspiring Kerry Harvey passed away, aged 24, on the morning of Saturday 22nd February. She was a brave and courageous young woman who touched so many hearts with her determination to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer despite being very ill herself.' Kerry is picture inset before she fell ill, with husband Matt.

Lucas Whiteley, 4, from Wakefield, sent questions to the experts in America and was over the moon when they sent back a special 10-minute video. NASA engineer Ted Garbeff which included a virtual tour of his California base. Mr Garbeff told Lucas about the vast number of stars in the universe, using the number of grains of sand on our planet's beaches as a benchmark to convey the amount.

It has seen some of the worst fighting in the capital, leading to severe food shortages and widespread hunger. Yarmouk Camp has been sealed since July 2013, resulting in acute and widespread deprivation, including severe malnutrition, while civilian residents are constantly exposed to the threat of death, injuries and trauma of the armed conflict. The UN was given access to the camp, in a district in Damascus, by the Syrian authorities late January, which is when the photograph was taken.

Katherine Poxon, 22, (left with her husband and right) and Stephen Swallow, 44, (inset) both admitted planning to attack her husband Stephen Poxon when they appeared at Leeds Crown Court, with Mr Poxon watching from the public gallery. Mr Poxon has forgiven his wife for her affair and they are now back living together with their young child in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, the court was told.

Secondary school teacher Claire Pettigrew, 27, from Glasgow, weighed 23st and was size 24 at the time of the humiliating episode. She said: 'I tried desperately to pull the bar over my stomach but it just wouldn't go down any further

Donald Knight, 78, and wife Mary, 77, (both pictured, left) were found dead along with their pet dachshund, Daisy (left), at their £500,000 home in picturesque Loddington, Northamptonshire. An inquest heard Mrs Knight was discovered slumped in her chair in the lounge with four gunshot wounds by her daughter, Sarah, 49, who then called the police (right).

Jaden Gumm put his mother, Becky Gumm, 32, (both pictured) from St Neots, Cambridgeshire, through hell and sparked a huge 999 operation after he hid in the cupboard after watching his favourite programme, Fireman Sam. More than 30 police officers were drafted in from across the county, the police helicopter was called in and neighbours as well as total strangers turned out in force to help look for the youngster.

Occupy Madison Build, in Wisconsin, is hoping to create a cluster of tiny houses like those in Olympia, Washington, and Eugene and Portland, Oregon. Many have been built with donated materials and volunteer labour, sometimes from the people who will live in them. Most require residents to behave appropriately, avoid drugs and alcohol and help maintain the properties.

The trailer shows fans from Wales, Scotland and Ireland all appearing to shout for England. But it then becomes clear they are being asked which team they most want to beat. The film ends with the words: 'It’s not about who you want to win, but who you want to lose.' The BBC said the creative concept for the scrapped 2012 commercial was 'around being fans united in rivalry'. The corporation said the balance had to be changed after all the non-English fans had the same answer when asked who they wanted to beat.

Nicole McVey reached for her cell phone when the 11-year-old boy, who has Asperger's syndrome, became caught through a chair at Oaktree Elementary School in Goodrich, Michigan last November. On the video, she can be heard mocking the little boy as the school's principal, who was also in the room, chips in. After a maintenance worker freed the boy, the principal emailed the video to other staff and friends. He has since resigned and the school board has voted to fire McVey.

Wildlife experts have today launched the largest ever online portal of information about the incredible 421 species which have disappeared from our country since 1814.The Species Recovery Trust, which is behind the Lost Life Project, hopes that by publicising this issue they can help prevent a further loss of biodiversity. The Scottish wildcat (far left) became extinct in England last century. The Lixus angustatus (top, middle) became extinct in 1928. he Red-backed shrike (top, right) became extinct in 1988 due to habitat loss, agricultural intensification and egg collecting. The Gomphus clavatus or pig's ear fungus (bottom, right) became extinct in 1927 due to habitat loss and degradation.

The iconic vehicles included a 1948 Wolseley (left) used to patrol the Queen's coronation and an armoured vehicle fitted with bullet-proof glass. Along with a number of classic police bikes, they were driven from a Metropolitan Police garage near Hampton Court to Scotland Yard's driving school in Hendon. Some other cars in the procession were a Rover SD1, a Morris Minor and an Austin 1100 (right, top to bottom).

Bulgarian firm Small Feet says the shoes are like 'walking on air' over snow and ice. Billed as 'lifejackets for feet,' the shoes are aimed at extreme sports fans - but are likely to be just as useful in US cities as winter continues.

From mysterious markings in the Nevada desert, to animal carvings in Britain, mysterious sites that only reveal themselves from a birds-eye-view are scattered across the world. A collection of the ‘strangest’ sites found on Google Earth include man-made wonders such as giant carvings and a psychedelic guitar-shaped forest made up of 7,000 cypress trees in Argentina. A building with a Batman logo on top, the Firefox logo, a heart-shaped lake and a target carved in the Nevada desert are pictured clockwise from top left.

Called SeaOrbiter, the floating aquatic lab has been designed by French architect Jacques Rougerie, and will take two years to build. Almost two-thirds of the 170-ft tall ship will sit underwater making it possible to directly study ecosystems and fish levels at great depths.

On the same day Kellie Gerardi's boyfriend proposed to her, she learned that she has made it to the next round of the selection process to be one of several people a Dutch non-profit hopes to send to Mars to colonize the planet in ten years time. If she goes it is likely she will NEVER return, but she is still prepared to make the sacrifice that will likely end her marriage.

The sequence of images follows the bird from being perched on a post to taking flight after spotting a helpless mouse with its piercing yellow eyes. In one of the shots, the bird flashes an arrogant glance to the camera as if to say 'watch this', before swooping on the unsuspecting creature.