It's Winnie the Pooh Day, which coincides with author A. A. Milne's birthday (January 18). It's also the 100th anniversary of the honey-loving bear! It's a day to honour Milne's incredible legacy, ...

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The original voice of Winnie the Pooh was ultimately pushed out of his role. Sterling Holloway was the first voice actor to lend his talents to Winnie the Pooh, in addition to roughly a dozen other ...

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When the much-loved children’s character Winnie-the-Pooh, created by the Sussex-based writer AA Milne, first appeared in print a century ago on Christmas Eve, 1925, no one could have foreseen the ...

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CARRYING a solitary balloon, a small bear with a big heart entered our lives 100 years ago. Winnie-The-Pooh made his first proper appearance in a British ­newspaper in the story The Wrong Sort Of Bees ...

On a grey and damp Christmas Day morning in 1991, a dog-walker made a made grim discovery. Hidden in dense undergrowth, just yards from the M61 motorway, he found a severed leg wrapped in a black bin ...

Christmas Eve marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of one of the world's most popular children's characters. Winnie-the-Pooh first featured in the short story The Wrong Sort of Bees ...

The first Winnie the Pooh story, The Wrong Sort of Bees, was published in the Evening News on Christmas Eve in 1925. That paper was taken over by the Evening Standard in 1980. So, indirectly, this ...

A century ago, on Christmas Eve 1925, The Evening News in London published a story. Most such tales in a newspaper are forgotten within days, if not in minutes, yet this one ran and ran – and is still ...