London - The world's most famous bear, A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, celebrated his birthday at the weekend having enchanted children around the world for 75 years.
Pooh, created after Milne's five-year-old son, Christopher Robin, saw a real black bear called Winnie at London Zoo, first appeared in a short story published in a London newspaper.
The bear's adventures were set in Ashdown Forest in Sussex, where the Milne family had a cottage. And it is to Ashdown Forest, to the famous Pooh Sticks Bridge, that fans flocked at the weekend to mark the birthday.
