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Paul Henry, born 1947 in Birmingham, is a British actor whose best-known role was Benny Hawkins, a bumbling semi-rustic handyman he played from 1975 to 1988 in the soap opera Crossroads. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Crossroads was a British television soap opera set in a motel near Birmingham, England. ...

This led to the name Benny being used as a pejorative slang term to describe anyone of apparent mental slowness, especially by children.

According to newspaper accounts such as Slang ranger (The Sunday Times, October 6, 1996) the character gave rise to the pejorative nickname, 'Bennies', applied to locals by British troops serving in the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War in 1982. When ordered not to do this by their commanding officers, the troops took to referring to the islanders as 'Stills', on the grounds that they were 'Still Bennies'. The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Tom is short for Thomas). ... The armed forces of the United Kingdom are known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majestys Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Crown. ... The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), was an effective state of war in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands (also known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Henry's post-Crossroads career included minor stage roles and running a nightclub in Whitchurch, Shropshire, but in 1994 he returned to television briefly in a tribute to Crossroads, called "40 years on". In a 2002 interview, Henry declared that the public still love Benny and during a shopping trip, he came back to his car and found a person had left piece of paper on it saying "Benny, we miss you". [1] A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... Map sources for Whitchurch at grid reference SJ541415 Whitchurch is a small town in the north of the county of Shropshire. ... Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Shrops) is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in the West Midlands region of England. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

In 2004 he was returned to acting on TV in an episode of the British hospital series Doctors. He then played a regular character, a delivery man, in the series of the prison drama Bad Girls currently being shown on ITV1. Bad Girls is a British drama series showed on ITV1. ... ITV1 is a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ...

External links

• Paul Henry interview for the Crossroads Appreciation Society.