Varese

Also in Varese, students and researchers on the roof of the university

As the university reform continues its road to destruction in Parliament, a protest against the “destruction of the state education system” begins in Varese.

Football

When Gigi Riva was a child prodigy

“The Rumble” for those who saw him playing on the oratory pitches. The goalkeeper at the time extracts a 1955 photo from the top hat: Riva at that moment was called “ul furzelina” (in the Lombard dialect it means “little fork”, because of his thin body and legs.)

Television

Italian and Swiss television channels disappear, the inhabitants of Varese complain

In many areas of Varese, the state television signal disappeared. The words from above: be patient and retune your decoder every now and again. It will still take a few days. As for the Swiss TV …

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland expels foreigners who commit crimes

Fifty-three percent of voters voted in favour of the initiative by the rightwing UDC party. Away with those guilty of murder, robberies, human trafficking, rape and others crimes. The tax bill did not pass.

Internet

Man from Varese “spies” on shops for a hobby, and foils an attempt to shoplift

This is the strange story of Alessio Gila, an employee of Varese Province, who checks security cameras on the Web, on the website Internet Eyes

VARESE

The Best Sommelier of Europe 2010 comes from Besnate

His name is Paolo Basso, he works in Switzerland, and he defeated 35 competitors from different countries in a contest which lasted three days.

Varese

Design “made in Italy” for the dearly departed

In Varese, the Goldsmith society revolutionises a definitively object gloomy: the urn. A show in Villa Recalcati takes care to reveal these special works in gem and gold.

Curiosities

An asteroid called Furia appears in the sky

It is the present the members of the Astronomical Society Schiapparelli made to the professor who died on August 2010. Today, he would have been 86.

BUSTO ARSIZIO

Psychologist from Busto Arsizio to help earthquake victims

Claudio Moroni, who had worked as a volunteer in Palestine, where he was kidnapped by extremists, in 2006, was in Port-au-Prince from February to October, with Doctors Without Borders, working beside Haitian and foreign doctors and psychologists.

Busto Arsizio

Prisoners appeal to Strasbourg because of prison overcrowding

Overcrowding in the prison in Via per Cassano, which holds 450 prisoners is the cause of this unusual appeal. Thirty four prisoners have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.

TV

“Fighting the Mafia also through federalism”

Yesterday, during the TV show “Vieni via con me”, Roberto Maroni the Interior Minister read out a list of actions for fighting the Mafia.

Tradate

A national magazine and a social network for young artists

This is the idea of the Boga brothers that follows on the heals of the large museum “When thought exceeds deed”, which opens next spring. Works can already be sent in for consideration. “We want to make art more interactive.”