Rhianan Rudd gouged a swastika into her forehead in a declaration of her love for Adolf Hitler. She had just turned 15. A ...

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Yorkshire accent – the exact accent that the children in the University of Essex study associated with lesser intelligence. Now I should state for the record that I like the Yorkshire accent ...

Doctors were perplexed after countless tests failed to explain why Emily Egan, 31, lost the ability to speak. When she finally began to talk again, Egan’s voice sounded nothing like the Essex accent ...

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The children involved in the study were all from Colchester, where the main University of Essex campus is located, and did not show any bias towards their home county's accent. Other studies have ...

The best female guitarists of all time prove that the guitar isn’t just for phallic fretwork and cock-rock grandstanding. The good news about the best female guitarists is that there are too ...

She fled her interview for a place at Cambridge University in tears after being humiliated by a don who mocked her Essex accent and made her feel stupid. But tomorrow Tracy Playle will more than ...