“Between you and me…”

FOLLOWING LAST MONTH’S distressing item regarding my brief, unfriendly encounter with a man appearing to be John Nettles on Earl’s Court Road — an important update. It now seems the individual in question may not have been the former Midsomer Murders and Bergerac star, but a charmless doppelgänger now notorious in those parts. A local source since tells me “Bad Nettles”, as he's come to be nicknamed in SW5, lacks any of the real version’s trademark bonhomie and is notorious for “outright rudeness” when unknowing members of the public innocently approach. More on this when I have it...