Italy is a country of endless and fascinating contradictions. In a Catholic country where a porn star can win a seat in parliament without so much as a blink of an eye from the public, one gets the ...

A legendary punter believed to be ­behind a recent betting coup that scooped £2million also took the bookies to the cleaners four years earlier in an audacious plot with echoes of The Italian Job.

TV dinners, repossession agents, Italian life in the 1990s, and Barney Rock... BBC2, 8pm The Robshaws are transported back to the space-age 1960s, with their home having a fitted kitchen installed and ...