Fail to buy the latest cuddly toy or collectable action figure and there will be tears and tantrums - and that's just the grown-ups. Sales to so-called "kidults" rose by 6% last year, bucking the ...

It's a reminder of a time before internet shopping and shiny malls, when high streets were packed with festive ...

Moved to honour his memory, she decided to make a bespoke copy of him in cuddly toy form. "[I thought] It would be great to have a stuffed animal of Rufus!" she explains. "Not a generic stuffed ...