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 ...

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 ...

LONDON — The East End’s Eliza Doolittles have long since moved away--not to rural Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, mind you, but to suburban Essex and Kent, where their cockney rhyming slang is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...