Janet Street-Porter has emotionally described an encounter over 30 years ago in which someone told her she should be 'put down' over her 'common' accent. The Loose Women panellist is from Brentford. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter "I had all these blokes, posh white blokes of a certain age, saying I sounded common, I was unintelligent", she said of the incident, which took place back in 1971. "I was, you know, I should be ‘put down’, one man said if he saw me crossing the road he would run me over." Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

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