YOU won't catch undergraduate William Hanson indulging in raucous and rude behaviour like some students - for he lectures others on the value of good manners.

The Manchester University student, 19, is now earning money from his etiquette expertise and says he doesn't get into trouble for telling people the corrrect way to behave.

He appeared on TV to talk about the Big Brother house and has given classes to mothers groups, taught rowdy youngsters about table manners and even told yachters how to behave at sea.

He first started reading books on etiquette when he was 12 and started lecturing when he was 16.

But he says he doesn't like to pull his friends up if they break social rules.

"If one of them makes an etiquette faux pas they sometimes turn and look at me to see what my expression is to see my reaction," he said.

"I'm not constantly telling people how they should conduct themselves.

"Students are generally positive about what I do and why I do it - and there has not been any animosity here."

But he said that his fellow students could improve the way they conduct themselves.

"People at university are often late in lectures and it is very rare that they will thank people," he added. "When getting off the bus no one thanks the driver and they do not give up seats - the basics really.

"They will behave properly in formal situations - but in situations they are used to the basics become irrelevant.

"It's the younger generations I teach the most and I give a mixture of different sorts of lessons.

"The strangest thing I have been asked to give lessons on is yachting etiquette."

William, who is originally from Bristol, is studying language, literacy and communication.