Alice Adderley
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Global News Podcast · Netanyahu derides UK as 'Islamic Republic of Great Britain' · 14 Aug 2026
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Imagine the surprise you're carrying out a house renovation and after knocking down a wall you discover a chest containing millions of dollars worth of gold.
That's what happened in the small Flemish city of Dendermonde.
In the chest were at least four thousand gold coins and more than forty gold bars dating from the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Patrick Face is the chief of police for Dendermonde.
The house used to belong to a local brewer and now belongs to a charity, so the police are looking into who put the gold there and whether there was any crime involved.
The police are warning prospectors to stay away from the house where it was discovered.
If they are found to be the legal owners, they hope to use the money to help local people who are down on their luck.
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In 1946, after the Second World War had left Italy's roads in ruins, the aviation company Piaggio spotted an opportunity.
It began making the small, relatively cheap Agile scooters.
Upon seeing the prototype, the company's owner, Enrico Piaggio, said it looks like a wasp.
The name Vespa, Italian for wasp, captures the vehicle's shape, a wider bulky rear connected to the front by a narrow step-through waist and the quick zippy agility of the insect.
The design quickly caught on and by the 1950s they were given the kind of cultural cachet that money can't buy, with Audrey Hepburn riding one in the film Roman Holiday.
In the 1960s in Britain, it became part of a stylish working-class subculture with enthusiasts known as mods decorating their machines with multiple mirrors and lights and driving them in packs to the seaside.
This was immortalised in the 1979 film Quadrophenia.
Robin Quartermain was part of a late 70s revival of this movement and is honorary president of the Vespa Club of Great Britain.
He's in Rome taking part in the four-day party for the Vespa and explains some of the places he's visited on his scooter over the last 40 years.
Modern Vespas are much more refined than their 1940s ancestors, but the basic design remains the same, taking the concept of getting from A to B and giving it charm.
This is a Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
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