A woman has bought three houses in Italy for just one euro each and intends to retire to the Mediterranean country. Rubia Daniels flew out to Mussomeli, Sicily, within days of hearing about the "one euro home" scheme, launched to help fill up abandoned properties, in 2019.

The 49-year-old bought three run-down historic fixer-uppers and paid just €3 (£2.66) for them in total. They are within a 10-minute drive of each other and need €20,000 (£17.7k) worth of work each to restore them to their former glory.