"Barilla is to Parma what Agnelli is to Turin," said Marco Federici, a reporter for the Gazzetta di Parma, the local newspaper, which gave the commemoration copious coverage.
Through decades of British commemorations and coverage of the second world war – from Dunkirk to D-day – there has never been any doubt about who started it.
6.53am BST Welcome to rolling coverage of commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-day landings.
My colleagues Caroline Davies and Kim Willsher are in France throughout the day, and this blog will draw together their reports with coverage of commemorations taking place around the world.
"This is an unsatisfactory way of dealing with worldwide appetite for coverage of a commemoration for one of the major events of World War Two - an event in which people from many nations across Europe and wider lost their lives," he added.
The news special on BBC2 earlier in the day, which involved rolling coverage of the commemorations in Poland, London and Washington, got 800,000 viewers.
From 06:00 BST on 15 April there will be live coverage of the Titanic commemorations on our Titanic live web page and from 06:20 BST on BBC Two NI and Radio Ulster.
A couple of documentaries appeared around the time of the 60th anniversary of the flood but compared with the commemoration of the 2004 Asian tsunami the coverage was modest.
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Elizabeth Young, London Don't forget the Red Army In your coverage of the D-Day commemorations, you repeat the assertion that the Allied landings in Normandy helped turn the tide in World War II.
