https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed In spite of living in apparent poverty, two elderly women were found to be stashing cash and valuables worth more than €200,000 in their dilapidated Rome apartment. https://www.thelocal.it/20160205/police-find-hoard-of-more-than-200000-in-pensioners-impoverished-home Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:55:39 +0100 police-find-hoard-of-more-than-200000-in-pensioners-impoverished-home Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Thursday vowed to help shareholders and bondholders, after the government came under fire for a bank rescue plan that led one pensioner to commit suicide after losing his entire savings. https://www.thelocal.it/20151210/renzi-vows-to-help-savers-hit-by-bank-rescue Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:10:44 +0100 renzi-vows-to-help-savers-hit-by-bank-rescue The death of a pensioner, who killed himself after losing his life savings as a result of a controversial move by the government to rescue four banks, has sparked outrage in Italy, with two consumer associations calling for a criminal case inquiry. https://www.thelocal.it/20151210/man-kills-self-after-losing-100000-in-italy-save-banks-plan Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:13:39 +0100 man-kills-self-after-losing-100000-in-italy-save-banks-plan A 78-year-old man from a sleepy village in Campania decided to fake his own death on Tuesday - just to see how his friends and neighbours would react. https://www.thelocal.it/20151008/pensioner-fakes-death-to-see-towns-reaction Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:27:25 +0200 pensioner-fakes-death-to-see-towns-reaction A 92-year-old grandmother miraculously escaped without serious injury after falling down a 15-metre deep well near her home in northern Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20150929/92-year-old-italian-woman-survives-well-tumble Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:41:36 +0200 92-year-old-italian-woman-survives-well-tumble As the Italian government on Tuesday called on regional leaders to find accommodation for a further 20,000 asylum seekers, a pensioner in Rome told of how she has hosted several young refugees, an experience she said gave her “great joy”. https://www.thelocal.it/20150908/hosting-refugees-gave-me-joy-italian-pensioner Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:06:44 +0200 hosting-refugees-gave-me-joy-italian-pensioner A diabetic Italian pensioner, who was stranded in the mountains for nine days in northern Italy, has told how he survived by eating herbs. https://www.thelocal.it/20150812/lost-italian-pensioner-survives-on-herbs-for-9-days Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:48:48 +0200 lost-italian-pensioner-survives-on-herbs-for-9-days A 41-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly starving, abusing, humiliating and keeping a 77-year-old man in a bed surrounded by metal bars - in his own home - for four years. https://www.thelocal.it/20150807/rome-pensioner-held-captive-for-four-years Fri, 07 Aug 2015 12:03:36 +0200 rome-pensioner-held-captive-for-four-years An 80-year-old Italian man has been taken to hospital after spending 14 hours trapped headfirst in a muddy drain. https://www.thelocal.it/20150713/birthday-pensioner-stuck-headfirst-in-gutter Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:21:23 +0200 birthday-pensioner-stuck-headfirst-in-gutter A pensioner in Sicily has confessed shooting dead a petrol pump attendant. His motive? The fuel was too expensive. https://www.thelocal.it/20150623/pensioner-shoots-attendant-in-petrol-price-row Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:22:54 +0200 pensioner-shoots-attendant-in-petrol-price-row A pensioner has wounded eight neighbours including three children, after shooting at them during a row over the gate to their apartment building, Italian media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150520/eight-injured-by-gun-toting-pensioner-in-row-over-gate Wed, 20 May 2015 10:22:00 +0200 eight-injured-by-gun-toting-pensioner-in-row-over-gate Police in Rome are searching for an 82-year-old woman in connection with a deadly explosion at an apartment block on Tuesday morning. https://www.thelocal.it/20150120/elderly-woman-sought-over-rome-explosion Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:54:00 +0100 elderly-woman-sought-over-rome-explosion An elderly man in north-west Italy has been fined for crossing the street too slowly, according to Italian media reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20141212/pensioner-fined-for-crossing-the-street-too-slowly Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:58:00 +0100 pensioner-fined-for-crossing-the-street-too-slowly A car assumed a vertical position in southern Italy after the driver failed to put the handbrake on, a classic example of "Italian driving" according to social media. https://www.thelocal.it/20140825/parking-blunder-sends-car-off-cliff Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:12:00 +0200 parking-blunder-sends-car-off-cliff A ten-year-old girl on holiday in Italy has become an unlikely hero after saving an 88-year-old man from a ravine. https://www.thelocal.it/20140819/holiday-hero-girl-saves-pensioner-from-ravine Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:08:00 +0200 holiday-hero-girl-saves-pensioner-from-ravine A short-fused pensioner in northern Italy has been arrested after he allegedly stormed into a bar brandishing a .357 magnum handgun following a row over the queue for the slot machines. https://www.thelocal.it/20140811/pensioner-pulls-out-shotgun-in-slot-machine-row Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:30:00 +0200 pensioner-pulls-out-shotgun-in-slot-machine-row An 89-year-old man died over the weekend in Genoa after setting himself on fire, in protest at being sent to live in a care home. https://www.thelocal.it/20140728/pensioner-sets-self-on-fire-in-care-home Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:55:00 +0200 pensioner-sets-self-on-fire-in-care-home An Italian man from Reggio Calabria in southern Italy kept the body of his dead mother in a freezer for more than a year so that he could carry on collecting her pension. https://www.thelocal.it/20140217/son-kept-dead-mum-in-freezer-for-her-pension Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:55:00 +0100 son-kept-dead-mum-in-freezer-for-her-pension A woman in north-west Italy has claimed she kept her elderly mother's body in the freezer to ensure the pair would "always be close", Italian media has reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20140124/mums-body-put-in-freezer-to-be-close-to-daughter Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:00:00 +0100 mums-body-put-in-freezer-to-be-close-to-daughter An 80-year-old man has been arrested for attempted murder after attacking a neighbour with a hammer because the loud noise of her vacuum cleaner annoyed him. https://www.thelocal.it/20140109/pensioner-tries-to-kill-neighbour-over-loud-hoover Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:47:00 +0100 pensioner-tries-to-kill-neighbour-over-loud-hoover