Winnie the Pooh is one of the most beloved children's characters in the world, but the origin of his name is a little unusual – and fans are only just learning about it now ...

Winnie the Pooh is one of the most beloved bears in fiction, but fans are only just discovering how author AA Milne came up with the honey-loving bear's rather unusual name ...

Created by author A.A. Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard, Winnie the Pooh first appeared almost 100 years ago in a story commissioned by London's Evening News on Christmas Eve in 1925.