It's day 1 and we're in Birmingham which is one hundred miles north-west of London, the place that we call home! What are we doing here? Well, BBC Learning English is on a journey to find out about ...

The Birmingham accent has been ranked the fifth most annoying in the country - with four other dialects ranked higher. Brummie has been a source of unnecessary teasing for decades, with the accent ...

One of the UK's most famous accents could disappear in 50 years as a London-type dialect takes over the rest of the country. According to a linguistic report, the distinctive Birmingham twang will be ...

Yorkshire has been crowned as the most trustworthy accent in the UK, with a new study finding it to be 'intelligent' and 'calming'. The research, which was commissioned by OnBuy.com, asked 2,221 ...

Latest findings from research commissioned by www.sunshine.co.uk have revealed the UK accents people most and least trust when it comes to the person flying them to their holiday destination. 2,043 ...