Italian town prepares for Cruise/Holmes wedding

A medieval lakeside town outside Rome and its residents today braced themselves for an onslaught of fans, celebrities and paparazzi on the eve of the expected wedding of movie stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Streets were cleaned, the grass cut and weeds pulled out. Road signs outside Bracciano warned drivers that the centre of town would be closed to traffic tomorrow to free the area around the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle - the likely venue for the celebrity wedding.