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 ...

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 ...

Do you know your skin and blister from your trouble and strife? In your vocabulary, is Hampstead Heath a body part or a location? And who on earth IS Mickey Bliss? We're looking to find true Cockney ...

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What does our accent say about us? Why do we still judge each other that way? And why do so many of us still feel the need to “improve” how we speak to fit in? Cole Moreton did that as a teenager, ...

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 ...

I was born at the Bricklayers' Arms in the Old Kent Road and was known as the Cockney Kid because of my knowledge of the cockneys and cockney rhyming slang. It's a misconception that to be a cockney ...

It’s sad that when most people write about the East End of London today, it’s done in relation to lattes, frappes, fancy flats and pricey olives. The reality is a bit different. For example, there’s ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...