Englishman wakes up with Welsh accent after stroke

An Englishman has woken up after a stroke and started speaking Welsh.

An Englishman has woken up after a stroke and started speaking Welsh.

Alun Morgan from Bath was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War but says he never picked up the native tongue.

Doctors have diagnosed the 81-year-old with aphasia, a form of brain damage that causes a shift in the brain's language centre.

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