Would you be kind enough to help out a complete stranger? We took to the streets of Wolverhampton to find out...

Then there are the embarrassing moments when you step out of the toilets with loo roll on your foot or the horror of falling over in public.

"Never mind the car breaking down on my way to a meeting I want to break down myself and cry," you panic.

"How could I be so stupid?" you scream at yourself.

"Why didn't someone tell me?" "Will anyone hand it in?" "Why didn't someone help me?" These are some of the questions racing through your mind.

However on occasion we may see someone about to suffer a social embarrassment and we step in and save them, we become a Good Samaritan – it's your good deed for the day.

But does this sort of kindness really still go on in this day and age?

We hear how things just 'aint like the good old days' and how we no longer live in a Hovis advert looking after one another, but as people are we that cold hearted?

Would we watch a fellow human-being suffer the same social faux pas you have endured in your time of need? And is the hand you reach out to one offering aid and not one pointing and laughing?

The Express & Star took to the streets of the Black Country to see if chivalry was dead in these parts and if any Good Samaritans would come to our rescue.

Liz Joyce struggled through Wolverhampton with heavy bags in the hope someone would help her. She later dropped the bags on the floor and then 'fell down' stairs, would anyone give a damsel in distress a hand?

When shopping in Tesco in the Mander Centre she stood in a queue with one item. Surely someone would let her cut in the queue in front of them, would you?

Have you ever got to a shop counter and forgotten your purse or wallet? Liz did that too.

And then there's the nightmare of leaving a toilet with loo roll stuck to your foot, there had to be someone in Wolverhampton who would quietly and discreetly point it out to Liz.

Adam Thompson left a book containing sensitive details at the city's train station and a valuable ring in a shop to see if someone would return them to him.

As well as this, his car 'broke down' and while he looked on exasperated he waited for a hero to come along to offer their mechanical knowledge and give him a hand.

He also did what many of us have done at one time or another, walking around in public with pen ink smudged on his face.

Would people be so reserved and not point it out to him?

Some of the results are a little surprising and heart-warming too.