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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.

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'.

Henry's post-Crossroads career included minor stage roles and running a nightclub in Whitchurch, Shropshire, but in 2004 he returned to television 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.

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