Cheryl tricked into thinking quarantined Italians are singing her hit tracks from balconies

Cheryl is tricked into thinking quarantined Italians are singing her hits from their balconies amid coronavirus crisis… with Katy Perry and Madonna also falling for the prank By Raven Saunt For Mailonline Published: 20:54 GMT, 15 March 2020 | Updated: 21:21 GMT, 15 March 2020 She recently left fans confused after drastically altering her eye … Read more

Singing from the rooftops: Thousands of Italians in Milan and Rome take to balconies

Singing from the rooftops: Thousands of Italians in Milan and Rome take to balconies to sing and play instruments in bid cheer each other up amid coronavirus lockdown Families and neighbours in Rome, Milan, Palermo and other cities also crashed pots together in the flashmob Messages were circulated on social media to organise the second … Read more

Quarantined Italians sing rousing soccer songs from their balconies

Quarantined Italians took to their balconies for a second time on Friday evening to sing the national anthem and rousing soccer anthems to lift morale amid the country’s severe coronavirus outbreak.  The flash mob launched throughout Italy aimed to bring people together and try to cope with the emergency of coronavirus as the country remains on … Read more

Coronavirus: Incredible moment quarantined Italians chant ‘don’t give up’ together

Incredible moment quarantined Italians chant ‘don’t give up’ together from their balconies and sing rousing soccer songs to lift their spirits amid coronavirus crisis in Naples People stuck in the tower blocks in Casoria, Naples, belted out a defiant chorus    Using improvised chants and football songs they try to keep morale high   60 million citizens … Read more

Italians pack into supermarkets while police roam the streets

Italians were packing into supermarkets to stock up for a weeks-long quarantine today as police began roaming the streets to enforce a new nationwide lockdown.  Panic-buyers were queuing with shopping trolleys outside 24-hour supermarkets in cities including Rome and Naples last night after prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced the latest drastic measures.  Conte declared that … Read more

Dick Mallaby transmitted vital messages between the Allies and Italians

BIOGRAPHY  An Englishman Abroad  by Gianluca Barneschi (Osprey £16.99, 336 pp)  On the night of August 14, 1943, a British secret agent fell from the sky into Lake Como in northern Italy. Dick Mallaby hit the water carrying codes hidden inside a toothpaste tube, radio equipment in his shaving brush, an antenna disguised as a … Read more