Why does find my iphone think i'm in a different country?

I have a mac, ipod and ipad all with the "find my iphone" app. Whichever device I ask to find, it comes back with a pin-point location in Northern Italy. Which is great, but I'm in the UK.
I'm at home, connected to be my home wifi, which is connected to BT Boradband. If I check the location of the public IP address shown in my router, it correctly shows me in the UK.
So what's going on?

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