As the Modern Cockney Festival enters its third year, people in south east England with a Cockney connection reflect on what it means to them. Throughout March, the month-long event organised by Grow ...

Two modern-day Pearly Queens who continue the Cockney tradition of leading fundraising activities across London An academic report has suggested the idea of "Cockney culture" could be used as a tool ...

The pearly king of Woolwich and his mouse turned heads at the Modern Cockney Festival The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community ...

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 ...

THE late Queen sounded increasingly Cockney through her 70-year reign, according to research. Experts say certain words evolved more of an East End twang than her traditional “received pronunciation”.

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 ...