Brief item from the Press Association:

Visitors to Italy's capital are being told to obey the old maxim - when in Rome do as the Romans do.

Tourists in the Eternal City are now banned from snacking near monuments on pain of paying a 50 euro fine.

City officials say they want to preserve artistic treasures and decorum in a city that has millions of visitors every year.


... well, I guess that means there'll be no snacking anywhere!