August is a difficult month for you news vultures so here is the Italian news, condensed for your convenience.
Security guards have occupied the Colosseum, in protest about having to work in the private sector. There are rumours the mayor will let the lions out.
The Superenalotto jackpot is now 135 million euros. The lucky winner would be able to hire Silvio Berlusconi at a party.
A seven year old girl has swum the 3.5km Strait of Messina, proving that no bridge is necessary.
70 endangered loggerhead turtles have hatched at Capo Bruzzano, Calabria
The Coldiretti farmers union have withdrawn an instruction that tomato pickers must drink water during the day or will be sacked, after Muslims claimed it was not permitted in Ramadan.
A man who found a way of retrieving cancelled text messages from his wife’s mobile ‘phone could face a year in jail.
After Silvio Berlusconi said he would offer sanctuary in his homes to the people of l’Aquila, Antonio Bernardini, a resident made homeless by the earthquake, has formally applied for a place, saying he doesn’t mind whether it is in his palazzo in Rome or his converted convent in Sardinia. I’ve heard the parties are better in Sardinia.
Investigators are looking at the estate of the late Gianni Agnelli, president of FIAT, suggesting that as much as 1 billion euros may have gone missing from the tax authorities.
The church in Caltagirone, Sicily, has forbidden the performance of Mascagni’s opera Cavalliera Rusticana during the festival of the town’s patron saint on the grounds that the story line is immoral.
Some 750 nuns of the order of St Clare will be praying for an improvement in Italian television. The nuns do not themselves have television sets.
Security guards have occupied the Colosseum, in protest about having to work in the private sector. There are rumours the mayor will let the lions out.
The Superenalotto jackpot is now 135 million euros. The lucky winner would be able to hire Silvio Berlusconi at a party.
A seven year old girl has swum the 3.5km Strait of Messina, proving that no bridge is necessary.
70 endangered loggerhead turtles have hatched at Capo Bruzzano, Calabria
The Coldiretti farmers union have withdrawn an instruction that tomato pickers must drink water during the day or will be sacked, after Muslims claimed it was not permitted in Ramadan.
A man who found a way of retrieving cancelled text messages from his wife’s mobile ‘phone could face a year in jail.
After Silvio Berlusconi said he would offer sanctuary in his homes to the people of l’Aquila, Antonio Bernardini, a resident made homeless by the earthquake, has formally applied for a place, saying he doesn’t mind whether it is in his palazzo in Rome or his converted convent in Sardinia. I’ve heard the parties are better in Sardinia.
Investigators are looking at the estate of the late Gianni Agnelli, president of FIAT, suggesting that as much as 1 billion euros may have gone missing from the tax authorities.
The church in Caltagirone, Sicily, has forbidden the performance of Mascagni’s opera Cavalliera Rusticana during the festival of the town’s patron saint on the grounds that the story line is immoral.
Some 750 nuns of the order of St Clare will be praying for an improvement in Italian television. The nuns do not themselves have television sets.
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