British accents can vary hugely — and face positive or negative stereotypes. Listen to these five British accents and see if you can hear the difference.

Kim, who hails from Goulburn in the NSW southern tablelands, now sounds like a native from northern England, despite never being there and having no regular exposure to the distinctive accent.

"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 ...

but in southern England ‘tea’ is often a light afternoon meal and ‘dinner’ is the evening meal. Your accent and your dialect both carry clues about the places that have influenced you most ...

Residents of Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and northeast England are better at detecting fake regional accents than Londoners and people from other points south, a study published in the journal ...

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 ...

One traitor has decided to "put on" a Welsh accent in the hope others will see her as more trustworthy. Researchers want to find out if people in north-east England can identify variety in local ...

The TV presenter appeared at Stylist Live last weekend, where she discussed being told to tone down her accent throughout her career and why she refuses to conform. If there was one place to be ...