Silvio Berlusconi readmitted to hospital for medical checks

Silvio Berlusconi (Chris Ratcliffe/PA)

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has been readmitted to a Milan hospital for planned medical checks related to his chronic leukaemia, his doctors said.

Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri said the tests at San Raffaele Hospital had been moved up “as part of normal practice in medicine”, and the timing did not signal “any criticality or alarm”.