Cockney Rebel singer Steve Harley, who died at the weekend from cancer aged 73, had a confession about his time as a young, rebellious ‘cloak and dagger’ reporter on the East London Advertiser in the ...

Well have a butcher’s at that, it seems people aren’t minding their Ps and Qs anymore. Researchers at the University of Essex have found that two of the most famous accents in the south of England ...

It's a remarkable feat for anyone to live through four heart attacks and a close involvement with London’s underworld, but Stanley Melvin, 72, laughs as he tells me his tale. Known to his mates as ...

East Londoners are cracking up at a graphic that has renamed East End tube stations in cockney, ‘as they should be’. Non-cockneys have been given schooling in the correct pronunciation of stops on the ...

Cockney speakers are now more likely to live in Essex than in the traditional heartlands of inner London's East End, according to research. Historically the dialect was used by people from the central ...

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