Lancashire was a double winner on the night, earning both the prize for Best Drama Performance for her role in Happy Valley and receiving a Special Recognition award from Ian McKellen. On BBC crime ...

A NEW survey has shown some English people have more difficulty understanding the Lancashire dialect than they do French and German. Hotel chain Travelodge found almost half of Britons failed to ...

The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...

Willem Hollman is an expert in linguistics and a lecturer at Lancaster University. He's currently working on a project looking into the grammatical features that define Lancashire as being a distinct ...

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This week, a Burnley pub named after dialect poet Tim Bobbin was recognised nationally by real ale group Camra thanks to a major overhaul. Bobbin was the pseudonym of John Collier, who as well as ...

Presenter Joel Dommett and viewers of the National Television Awards were in shock after hearing Sarah Lancashire’s real accent. The Masked Singer host and comedian was presenting during Tuesday (5 ...