When was pudsey bear introduced to children in need

Graphic designer Joanna Lane was tasked with creating the new design and the result was the little yellow bear whose roots are deep in West Yorkshire. For the uninitiated, Pudsey is a small town of around 22,, mostly known for its cricketing sons, with the likes of Len Hutton, Raymond Illingworth and Matthew Hoggard all born there.

Lane was a proud daughter of Pudsey and her grandfather, Irvine Ball, had been mayor of the town in , so she decided to name the Children In Need bear after her birthplace. Sir Terry Wogan introduced Pudsey to the world in and from the bear was the official logo of Children In Need.

He was initially brown with a red bandage on his head and his buttons spelling out BBC down his front, but this gradually all changed. Nowadays he has his famous yellow fur with a multi-coloured polka-dot bandage and he is entirely buttonless. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. View more objects from people in London. Model made by a German Prisoner-of-War.

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Ms Lane said: "I went to the production team and said, 'we need to name it'. So they turned around and said 'if you think it's important to name him, you do it'. He was introduced to the public by TV presenter Terry Wogan in , but started out life with regular brown fur and circular buttons running down his front with the letters BBC spelt out.

He also wore a red bandana with black triangles dotted across it. The bear we recognise today was created in ; he had all his buttons removed and his bandana became multi-coloured instead of pure red. The US consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 6. An Olympic gold medallist has said she was pepper-sprayed in a racist attack while waiting for an Uber with a group of friends.

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