Before her passing, she was the oldest woman in Italy’s Calabria region, which has a population of about 1.84m. READ MORE:'Sneeze and a bite' uncovered aggressive cancer for man, 26 READ MORE ...

Women have just been given the vote in Italy, but in Calabria, a conservative rural region in Southern Italy, men still rule the roost. An unmarried single mother, Marta, who is deemed to have ...