National treasure Felicity Kendal has turned have-a-go hero after fending off a phone snatcher in her Chelsea neighbourhood.

The 79-year-old actress rose to fame as the star of beloved sitcom The Good Life and gentle crime drama Rosemary & Thyme.

She leapt into action amid a recent spate of crime in the London borough where she has lived since the 1960s .

‘Crime was never like this before. The phone-snatching is appalling,’ she revealed recently.

‘Within three days I saw three,’ she outlined, sharing how she had ‘snapped’ after witnessing one such attack.

Spotting a woman become swarmed by a gang of phone thieves, Felicity took action, scaring off the criminals with a well-timed honk of her car horn.

Speaking to local news outlet The Chelsea Citizen , Felicity said: ‘One day I

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