This year's forthcoming Paddington Bear, set in London, is one potential tourist draw.

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Paddington Bear: The Early Years is on BBC One on 31 December at 1910 GMT.

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Paddington Bear was created by former BBC cameraman Michael Bond, and his first book was published in 1958.

BBC: Paddington Bear voted the UK's best animated character

Paddington Bear has been voted Britain's best animated character of all time at the ninth British Animation Awards.

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Childhood favourites, Winnie the Pooh and Paddington Bear are as British as tea on the lawn or a rainy bank holiday.

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Paddington Bear has been voted Britain's best animated character of all time.

BBC: Paddington Bear voted the UK's best animated character

Brian Cosgrove, creator of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague that he was "a little bit surprised" that Paddington Bear won the prize and that one of the current shows would have been in people's minds.

BBC: 'Warm and cosy' British animation

Dalloway or Paddington Bear.

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