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 ...

“Modfather” Paul Weller is the latest act to be added to the bill for this year’s Isle of Wight Festival. Dual Classic hero Cockney Rebel tops an eight-strong field for Tuesday’s St James’s Palace ...

The 80-year-old billionaire runs the sport as president and chief executive of Formula One Management — and is the focus of a new book by Tom Bower, a journalist whose hard-hitting books about Richard ...

Of all the UK accents, Cockney is one of the most famous, but it’s also one of the trickiest to pull off. Best known for identifying working-class Londoners, actors like Michael Caine and Jason ...

Cockney culture has long been a proud part of London’s storied landscape, boasting its own pitter-patter dialect of rhyming slang, a cuisine of eels, pie and liquor, and even an alternative royal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As English dialects go, cockney is one of the most influential. Long considered the preserve of working-class communities in east ...

The Pearly Kings and Queens, known for their button-festooned costumes, preserve a charitable tradition that began in the Victorian era and became a symbol of the city’s working-class culture. By ...

Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchel in the BBC soap opera Eastenders. BBC Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a cockney icon, born in 1937 in Shoreditch, east ...