Italian police cook pasta for elderly couple heard 'crying with loneliness'

Four Italian policemen have been praised on social media after they cooked a simple meal of pasta for a distressed elderly couple.

The Rome police officers were responding to a neighbour’s calls that cries had been heard coming from inside their apartment.

Jole, 84, and Michele,94, told police that they were lonely and upset at the state of the world they saw on the news.