WITH his floppy hat, duffle coat and suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches, Paddington is one of the most recognisable and beloved fictional characters of all time. In the stories, he was taken in by

It was just over 100 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1925, when we first met one of the most famous bears in literature. The London Evening News featured a story called The Wrong Sort of Bees, beginning w

Toddlers love Paddington Bear. My two-and-a-half-year-old Nye is a big fan – he likes many bears, in fact. Winnie the Pooh is almost certainly his favourite and we’ve seen the 1977 Disney film approxi

Paddington is alive. He’s walking, talking – and singing and dancing – in a musical adaptation of his story. Almost seven decades after he first appeared in Michael Bond’s A Bear Called Paddington in

Surviving life in care The twice-Oscar-nominated actress Samantha ...

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