Couple took three years to transform ' Victorian network into a stunning house .

A couple added £1.65million to the value of a house by converting it from a squalid network of seven bedsits into a stunning five-bedroom family home with a huge, sunlit living room and a wine cellar on the ground floor. Chelsea Dixon and her husband Robert Bühler, 33 and 31, bought the crumbling Victorian terrace house in Shepherd's Bush, West London, for £1.6million at an October 2015 auction just three days after the birth of their son, Forest.

University cleaner whose students crowd-funded his "trillionaire" trip to Jamaica.

A popular university cleaner says he feels like a 'trillionaire' after students raised £1,500 to send him and his wife on the trip of a lifetime to Jamaica. Herman Gordon, 65, broke down in tears after he was presented with the money by kind-hearted students last June.

The photo that moved strangers to donate £32,000 to boy's family.

A heart-wrenching photograph moved social media users to donate more than £32,000 to a young boy's family in just a day. The picture showed an 11-year-old boy crying next to the body of his father. He is holding his head in one hand, wiping away the tears, while his other hand is placed on his dad. The image was shared more than 7,000 times on Twitter by people wanting to raise money to support the family and raise awareness of the deaths of sewer workers in India who are allegedly not given proper safety equipment.

Teenage girl is allergic to her own TEARS.

A teenage girl has been diagnosed with an extremely rare condition which makes her allergic to her own tears. Lindsey Coubray, aged 19, suffers from aquagenic urticaria, which affects just one in 230 million people worldwide. She breaks out in severely itchy hives whenever she comes into contact with water - stopping her from showering or swimming.

It's behind you!

This is the terrifying moment a shark with its 'mouth wide open' creeps up on unsuspecting snorkelers off the Scottish coast. Will Clark, from Somerset, had been swimming in waters around the Inner Hebrides archipelago in Scotland last month when the shark 'appeared through very murky water'.Initially taken aback, Mr Clark did not need to fret as the animal which had come to investigate them was not a deadly great white shark but a much more harmless basking shark.

Solar-powered yacht capable of sailing around the world without stopping to refuel is unveiled by Swiss designers

A futuristic, solar-powered yacht which can cruise the globe without stopping to refuel has been unveiled by its Swiss designers. The electric SolarImpact yacht is longer than a blue whale and topped with enough solar panels to cover a regulation-size tennis court. The boat sleeps ten people, on top of accommodation for the small crew, and is loaded with artificial intelligence that allows it to be driven by a single person.

An Emmy winner proposed on stage to his girlfriend.

THE 70TH EMMY Awards featured some old favourites back for more glory (Game of Thrones), some new entries in the television history books (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) – and an on-stage marriage proposal.

Naomi Osaka is about to get PAID by Adidas after her US Open win

Naomi Osaka, already one of the primary faces of Adidas’ tennis roster, is reportedly set to sign a massive new contract with the company in the wake of her first major tournament win. While Osaka has been on the rise and on Adidas’ books for quite some time now she fulfilled all of that promise by winning the US Open at only 20 years old on Saturday. Her straight-sets defeat of Serena Williams could now be the thing that launches her to the next level of star female athletes.

Autistic boy becomes model for top High Street brands.

A boy with autism who was banned from his school photo and other events because of anger issues is now a model for River Island, H&M and Land Rover. And Alfie Aldridge’s ­behaviour has improved since he started doing shoots.

Mum spots 'daughter' in photo taken years before she was born.

A mum believes she can see her youngest daughter in an "unexplainable" photo taken years before she was born. Laura Cisse, 38, spotted the eerie figure standing behind her 15-year-old daughter Ayesha and now believes it could have been an "echo from the future".The photo appears to show another girl with blonde hair, who looks a lot like Laura's younger daughter Sophie, peering over a table ornament in the background and staring straight at the camera.