 | Temperatures across the country have plummeted deep into double figures, with lows of -31 or less predicted in places over the coming days. The severe frosts have already claimed 29 lives, nine victims in a single day on Feb 1st. Full Story > > |
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Mazowsze
Police this week arrested 35-year-old Michal K., who successfully bedded, then robbed a string of women, despite being generously proportioned and not looking at all like a Casanova. The man began by placing a series of advertisements on the internet, looking for secretaries, PAs or models, offering good pay.
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Podlaskie
A farmer from the village of Widow ended up battling police after he tried to block the passage of machinery into his field to erect an electricity pylon. When the investor arrived on Tuesday morning, workers found the entrance to the field blocked by the farmer in his blue Mercedes. Eventually they were forced to call in police ...
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Wielkopolskie
The Archdiocese of Poznan is demanding PLN 6.5 mln from Poznan City Hall in return for using its property without permission and is taking the authority to court. The long-running argument concerns Poznan’s High School number 8, which was illegally appropriated from the Church back in 1956.
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Pomorskie
Archbishop Glodz’s plans for a new church on ul. Wielkopolska hit a stumbling block when Gdansk City Hall voted to halt his application for planning permission until plans for the space become clearer. The application has fallen under a cloud since it emerged that Gdansk president, Pawel Adamowicz, sold the plot,valued at PLN ...
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Swietokrzyskie
Two people were found dead at a hotel in Lopuszno, near Kielce, this Wednesday afternoon, following a double shooting. Police arrived at the scene to find the bodies of the 32-year-old manageress of the hotel and her 34-year-old husband in one of the service areas of the Markiz hotel.
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Lodzkie
A group of 18 Lodz bookmakers operated in conjunction with a gang dealing in illegal ethyl alcohol, issuing fake winings tickets in order to launder the income from the operation. The charge files on the case were sent to Lodz Regional Court this week, meaning the trial will shortly go ahead.
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Dolnoslaskie
Police arrested a 27-year-old man this Sunday in connection with a bomb hoax at a Wroclaw hospital that forced a mass evacuation. The false alarm led to 350 patients having to leave the hospital late on Saturday night in freezing temperatures. It took police less than 24 hours to make the arrest; the suspect has a history of sim ...
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Malopolskie
Anders Hoegstroem, the Swedish man convicted of ordering the theft of the Arbeit Macht Frei sign from the entrance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, was released from a Swedish prison this week after serving a sentence of two years and eight months. Speaking to the Swedish media, he proclaimed his innocence and compl ...
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Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Bydgoszcz police are looking for the man who robbed a bank on ulica Abrahama in the city on Tuesday this week at around 5pm. The entire robbery was caught on CCTV cameras, which police have made public in the hope of identifying the robber.
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Opolskie
The Regional Court in Brzeg will have to retry the case of Daniel K., who stands accused of causing death by careless driving. A judge in Opole Regional Court this Tuesday sided with prosecutors in their appeal that there were too many uncertainties surrounding the original acquittal.
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Lubuskie
Michal B. is facing up to 10 years in prison for the theft of two packet soups and some washing up liquid. Michal B. of Kolsko clearly felt hungry on the evening of 6th January, and so he purportedly cut a window pane out of a family house in Konotop, in the district of Nowy Sol. He squirmed in and helped himself to two packs of ...
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Lubelskie
Six children were left orphaned this Monday, after a family row led to the father killing his wife before turning the gun on himself. The tragedy took place late on Monday evening in Poloski near Terespol.
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Warminsko-Mazurskie
Olsztyn prosecutors have been struggling for nine months to bring a colleague from Mragowo to book after he was caught drink driving last April. “The facts of the matter are quite ordinary, even banal, but from the procedural point of view, it’s anything but ordinary,” Anna Grygo-Janusz, of Olsztyn prosecutors, told report ...
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Podkarpackie
Border Guards in Korczowa discovered a blanket heavily contaminated with Thorium, a radioactive substance, with laboratory tests revealing the blanket waas 42 times over the limit. The blanket was being used by the passengers of the car, a Ukrainian and a Romanian, to keep warm.
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Zachodnio-Pomorskie
A policeman trying to carry out a routine inspection was involved in a hit and run incident in Chojno this Tuesday. He noticed the vehicle failing to stop at a STOP sign and stepped out into the road. The car slowed briefly, before accelerating and hitting the officer before speeding away.
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Slaskie
A 39-year-old man from Dabrowa Gornicza is facing 12 years in prison for raping and blackmailing a 19-year-old girl from Katowice. The man has been placed under police supervision and is not allowed to contact the girl or approach her closer than 50m while awaiting trial.
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