IOS 8 won't allow me to delete photos in phone library

Upgraded my wife's phone to iOS 8. She needs to make room on her phone by deleting photos and that option doesn't appear. Tried turning off Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing, to no avail. Tried re-syncing with computer....no help. Tried rebooting phone....no help. Curiously, my phone doesn't seem to have this quirk. Any ideas? BTW they are iPhone 5.

My phone won't allow me to delete them off. I don't know how all these pictues and movies moved onto my phone in the first place.
Have you synced your iPhone with iTunes? Then you may have enabled the syncing of Pictures in iTunes. All iPhoto or Aperture albums and events will appear as albums on your iPhone, if you enabled this. To delete the synced photos you need to sync your iPhone again. You change the sync settings for photos in iTunes in the device’s Photo pane.
Regards
Léonie

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