It was adopted by the BBC in 1922 and was once regarded as the most "typically British" accent. Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire said she was proud of her native Lancashire accent.

With an American visa, James often works four months at a time in the States, where he finds his Lancashire accent gives him ...

A traveller who met Jungly Barry in Goa claimed that he spoke with a Lancashire accent. And the date Barry claimed to have been born, March 11 1938, tallies with the birth of a Barry T.