You've been walking along pavements all wrong! Etiquette guru William Hanson reveals how to use them correctly - including the big no-no when in a group. Are YOU guilty of it?

Before you head off along a pavement today, a quiet word – you’ve been walking along pavements all wrong. Well, according to etiquette guru William Hanson's book, Just Good Manners, you’ve been walking in the wrong group formations, failing to give way and, what’s more, failing to operate pedestrian crossings in a suitable manner. The pavement is a public, shared space, and anything that makes others assume you are not playing the game of considering those around you will irritate them.’ GROUP FORMATIONS William Hanson has revealed how to walk correctly along a pavement in his new book, Just Good Manners William, above, says: 'When in public, on a pavement or otherwise, Brits do not like loud, disruptive displays of bacchanalia' Avoid blocking pavements with overly wide group formations, the duke of decorum advises. Hopefully they stop for you, too, leading to both polite parties giving small chuckles as to how courteous you have all been and how you have succeeded as humans.’ William's new book, Just Good Manners, is out now WEAVING Do walk in a straight line, says William, ‘rather than slaloming around, getting in everyone’s way’. William includes in his tome a ‘note for visitors to Britain’, which is this: ‘When at a pedestrian crossing you will be standing there an awfully long time if you have not pressed the button to cross.’ WALKING ON THE OUTSIDE ‘If you know the person you are with will like your supposed protection, position yourself on the outside of the pavement,’ says William, who explains that this rule goes back to a time when gentlemen were expected to protect women from splashes from passing stagecoaches.