SOOTY the bear, who is 53 this year, has had some serious if hushed words into his owners' ears since spotting his face on the Census poster campaign. The glove puppet's image has been used on the ...

He's the naughty yellow bear who celebrates his 60th birthday in 2008. He is, of course, Sooty! He's been a kids' favourite for six decades but did you know about his Bradford origins? We've been ...

One day he turned around and said to me, 'If I can’t work with Sooty again there’s no point in carrying on living' ‘She’d always be saying, “Harry-boy would have done it this way,” recalls Matthew.

This is Sweep, my best friend for more than 60 years. We’ve shared this bedroom on the set of The Sooty Show with our co-star Soo since 1978. Sweep’s younger than me and while I’m the mischievous one ...

When Harry Corbett bought a bear glove puppet on Blackpool's North Pier in 1948 to entertain his children, he could surely not have realised he was teaming up with a future TV icon. Sooty, who turned ...

SOOTY has legs, and that's official. For the first time in his 48-year life, the popular children's puppet will be seen walking. Children's ITV is launching a #1m 13-part cartoon series next month, ...