Of all the public schoolboys in Britain —not even excluding Tom Brown—none is better known or more persistent than Billy Bunter of Greyfriars. A round, owlish fellow, he is forever stealing ...

No, it is not an extract from Boris Johnson's London mayoral election manifesto; it is but a few words in celebration of a hugely important cultural centenary: Billy Bunter is 100 this week.

British actor Gerald Campion, who was best known as the rotund Billy Bunter, has died at the age of 81. Campion had to wait until his 30s before he found fame, when he took the role of the greedy ...