It's almost 80 years since the end of World War Two, during which Orkney became home to hundreds of Italian prisoners of war.

Outcome: Defeat of the Italian forces in East Africa. In 1940, Italy controlled Abyssinia, which it had conquered in 1936, as well as the 19th-century conquests of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland.

Justice Minister Carlo Nordio (L) confers with his colleague Matteo Piantedosi in the Italian parliament Italian ... to boost European co-operation with Africa in exchange for curbing irregular ...