Orinoco, a character from the 1968 book series and 70s children's TV show, The Wombles, is paying a visit to Newcastle to learn about the city alongside members of The Big Issue, who have kicked ...

He told fans his favorite Womble is Orinoco, the lead singer of the Wombles’ music group. “Children are a very good and very perceptive audience,” he told the British tabloid Daily Mirror in ...

His sister Kate was a “bit of a tomboy” so was the inspiration behind Bungo while Marcus was immortalised as Orinoco, the Womble who loved to eat and sleep. “My mother wrote the books in the ...

But while audiences debate 2023's incarnation of The Wombles – the story of how Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Madame Cholet, Orinoco, Wellington, Tomsk and Bungo came to be is just as intriguing.

As Womble Orinoco, Mike earned four Top 10 hits in the UK in 1974, and The Wombles even got to play the world-famous Glastonbury festival in 2011.

Thirteen steerage passengers and sailors were killed in the collision last night between the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the Royal Mail liner Orinoco. Both vessels were ...

The Wombles originally debuted in 1973 and rose to popularity across the UK with its cute stop-motion animation and quirky characters. Great Uncle Bulgaria, Orinoco, Tobermory, and more were all ...