Do you say a cheery hello to your local shopkeeper? Thank your bus driver? Help lost strangers?

If the answer's yes, you may well be a resident of one of the UK's friendliest cities. And there's a 53% chance it isn't London.

Happily, there are two joint winners in a poll to decide who comes out on top in Britain's most approachable destinations - Cardiff and Liverpool.

The Welsh capital and the North West city have both been voted as "very friendly" by 91% of its inhabitants, in a YouGov poll of more than 1,500 people in 15 cities. They were closely followed by northern hotspots Newcastle-upon-Tyne, York and Manchester, while only 45% of Londoners voting the Smoke as welcoming.

Revealed: the friendliest and most attractive cities in the UK