Oscar-nominated star Florence Pugh ‘dropped everything’ to narrate a hard-hitting BBC documentary about medical staff at an Italian hospital battling to save lives in the early days of the pandemic. ‘I can barely cry,’ says Dr Francesca Mangiatordi, her haunted face staring into a laptop at the Cremona Hospital in Lombardy, Northern Italy. Documentarian Sasha … Read more
An illuminating 200th birthday tour with the Lady of the Lamp: Exploring Florence Nightingale’s family home and the museum dedicated to her Next week marks the 200th birthday of inspirational nurse Florence Nightingale Her former family home in Derbyshire is now a B&B – you can stay in her bedroom London’s St Thomas’s Hospital hosts … Read more
Florence Pugh, Chris Pine and Shia LaBoeuf to star in Olivia Wilde’s 1950s psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling By Jack Newman For Mailonline Published: 20:55 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 24 April 2020 Florence Pugh, Chris Pine and Shia LaBoeuf are set to star in a new psychological thriller, written and directed … Read more
Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in the Italian city of Florence and moved with her family as a baby to the East Midlands in 1821. The Nightingale family was wealthy and well-connected and Florence’s father William Shore had inherited the Lea estate (and with it the right to change his surname) from his uncle, … Read more
Florence Pugh makes a grocery run with beau Zach Braff before sharing another wholesome cooking recipe on Instagram amid coronavirus crisis By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 06:51 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 08:50 BST, 4 April 2020 They have been dating for about a year now. And on Friday, Florence Pugh and Zach … Read more
Florence Pugh and Zach Braff hop on a motorcycle before donning protective gloves to pick up supplies in LA By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 17:15 GMT, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 19:02 GMT, 22 March 2020 Florence Pugh and Zach Braff left their home to pick up supplies on Saturday. Amid statewide orders in California to … Read more
With grand palaces, vast plazas and a particularly spectacular cathedral, Florence might not seem like the place to grab a bargain. But the grandeur is surrounded by street stalls selling panini, ice cream shops, busy markets and small cafes. The Tuscan capital was endowed by the Medici family of bankers, which sponsored Michelangelo, Da Vinci, … Read more
As I walked into Florence’s grand Uffizi Gallery on Saturday, I braced myself for the inevitable throng of tourists scrambling past each other to get a glimpse of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera. After all, the Uffizi receives some 5,500 visitors every day – each of them desperate to jostle to the front of … Read more
Plane that was due to fly from Copenhagen to Florence lands 65 miles away in Bologna because the information for the route wasn’t loaded into the GPS system The problem on the Scandinavian Airlines plane was discovered before take-off Decision to fly to a close destination was made instead of cancelling the flight The passengers … Read more