Actress Felicity Kendal nearly lost her partner Michael Rudman to Covid earlier this year. Yet far from exhausting her enthusiasm for battle, she is now taking on another foe.
She is campaigning to prevent a property developer from demolishing part of her iconic neighbourhood, London's King's Road.
Kendal, star of the Seventies sitcom The Good Life, has lived in fashionable Chelsea on-and-off since the Sixties and is protesting against a scheme to demolish a row of red-brick buildings and replace it with a 'monstrous' five-storey complex of offices and luxury apartments with terraces.
'This entire development is over-the-top and all wrong for the area,' she protests.