"Accent prejudice maps onto societal prejudice," she says. Sandwell, where Beth is from, was ranked the ninth most income-deprived of the 316 local authorities in England in the latest available ...

Walsall Tiktoker Madson Hodgson said: "Never in my life have I heard someone saying that Walsall is the most exotic accent in the UK." Image caption, Bonnie Jenkins, who went to the same school as ...

There is a large variety of accents across the north of England and they range from mild to strong. In these clips, dialect coach Elspeth Morrison takes us on a tour of the main regional accents ...