Just had a pleasant evening stroll up to the Peel Memorial on the hill above Ramsbottom, Lancashire.

The town of Bury has always made much of its famous son Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister who gave us the Police Force.

As a "Bury lad", the question is did he have a Lancashire accent? Remember he was a Conservative, educated, among other places, at Harrow and Oxford.

Does anyone know?
Perhaps more to the point, does anyone care?