Weatherday: No more Il Duce

Morning cloud and mist is set to disappear by midday to partly cloudy and sunny spells. A cool start, not a very warm day with temperatures just about getting to 12deg.

Very light northeasterlies will shift southeast in the evening. No rain foreseen.

On this day in 1945, former dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini was captured by Communist partisans near Lake Como. He and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by firing squad the next day.

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