Tents provide school venue for Italian quake survivors

School reopened in a blue tent city today in a symbolic return to normality for some of the youngest victims of Italy’s earthquake.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi and education minister Mariastella Gelmini were expected to be on hand for the start of lessons in the tents of Poggio Piacenza, a few miles from the hard-hit city of L’Aquila.