In an often wrenching account, kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard recounts in unsparing detail the rapes, isolation and heartbreak she endured during her 18-year ordeal.

Disney leave the more modern forms of animation and return to the traditional hand-drawing for this return of the much-loved A.A. Milne characters of the Hundred Acre Wood, characters which have served Disney well over the years, and been equally well treated in return.

NO OFFENCE intended to that silly old bear Winnie the Pooh (G), but it’s a telling indictment of the week’s releases that an animated movie for a young audience is the most accomplished film of the week.

CHRISTMAS may still be two weeks away, but Cork children bravely overcoming serious medical and social problems were given an early seasonal treat yesterday as a special visitor came to town.

PAUL Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children’s TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh’s animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

The rocker admits he has a huge collection of stuffed toys and two of them, Mani and Marietta, are so "special" to him he believes they have feelings.

THE lawyer defending a Disney World entertainer from charges of molestation earned his stripes yesterday.

A 13-YEAR-OLD girl testified that a Disney World character worker dressed as Tigger fondled her breast while she posed for a photo with him and her mother at the Magic Kingdom in Florida.

Film footage of the real life Christopher Robin at the age of nine has been discovered 72 years after it was shot.