Brummies have known the deal when it comes to accents for generations. Someone will rank all the accents in the British Isles and dead last will be ours - its standard stuff. Well, maybe feasting time ...

Birmingham Council's new automated phone system reportedly struggles to understand a Brummie accent. Costing £11 million to implement, the system uses speech recognition technology. However, local ...

Felicity Jones was "embarrassed" by her family's accent growing up. Although the 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' actress grew up in Birmingham, she never adopted a strong Brummie accent and has ...

BBC's new drama, This Town, had viewers buzzing with excitement on Sunday night. However, despite the praise for the show's scenes and music, fans were not too pleased about the accents. The fresh BBC ...

Today a reader asks why the hush around the National Trust's takeover of the Ironbridge Museums, questioning if TV producers know the difference between the Brummie and Black Country dialect, and ...

West Midlands Police trialled a voice assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to deal with rising volumes of non-emergency calls. Sensitive technical details of the plan were ...