 | Poland continued to be hit by freak, violent storms this week, with hail the size of golfballs and sudden winds bringing more devastation to parts of the country. Extreme weather incidents were recorded from Wejherowo to Lodz to Zielona Gora. Fire officers around the country were called out 750 times in less than 48 hours. Full Story > > |
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Mazowsze
PKP this week announced an end to the uncontrolled clutter of advertising in the capital’s stations following a decision in their favour in the Court of Arbitration in Warsaw’s Chamber of Commerce over their dispute with Clear Channel, the company which believed it held a monopoly on advertising in stations until 2012.
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Podlaskie
Suwalki Regional Court this week sentenced Wojciech P., owner of a local driving school, to five years imprisonment for raping a young student. The incident was said to have ocurred as far back as in 2006, when the instructor lured the 20-year-old girl to a room in the driving school offices, where he attacked her. The girl said ...
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Wielkopolskie
All hell broke loose this week over the contents of a leaked UEFA report concerning Poznan’s new stadium, which apparently states the building doesn’t meet the organisation’s criteria and raising the spectre of Poznan not being able to hold matches there during Euro 2012. The criticisms range from small details and go all ...
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Pomorskie
This week sees the 30th anniversary of the August Agreement, which recognised the Solidarity movement and was a major step on the road towards Poland’s escape from the communist system and the eventual collapse of the entire Wasaw Pact. The major celebrations are to take place in the Gdansk shipyards, with a massive spectacle ...
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Swietokrzyskie
A seventeen-year-old school pupil was awarded a prize by the president of Kielce after her prompt action saved a pedestrian who was hit by a car this Tuesday. The slight teenager was walking home when she noticed the accident. “The man was lying there, bleeding heavily, people were standing around, but nobody was helping,” K ...
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Lodzkie
A recent vote in Lodz City Hall was falsified when one councillor voted twice, using the electronic registration card belonging to her party colleague who had momentarily left the chamber, Super Express revealed last Friday. In response to the accusation, Iwona Bartosik of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) held a press conferen ...
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Dolnoslaskie
A 58-year-old woman from Polkowice plummeted three floors down a lift shaft after the outer doors opened despite the lift car being on another floor. “She was chatting with her daughter, and must have thought the light in the cabin was broken,” commented one eye-witness. She was taken to hospital in a serious condition suffe ...
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Malopolskie
A metal cross which had been illegally placed on the summit of Rysy, the highest mountain in Poland, was removed this week by the Tatra National Park (TPN) authorities. At the same time some outdated border markers and unauthorised advertising materials were removed.
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Kujawsko-Pomorskie
The Kujawsko-Pomorskie region is now covered by a brand new Eurocopter 135 helicopter for medical emergencies, replacing the ageing Mi-2 which served the region for twenty years. The new machine is better in all respects than its predecessor, Robert Galazkowski, head of the Flying Ambulance service assured reporters, “The seat ...
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Opolskie
An Opole court sentenced two brothers to fifteen and twenty-five year prison sentences for a brutal murder they committed in February 2009, because their victim, “Had nice boots.” The murder of Marek Medynski by 28-year-old Tomasz and his 16-year-old younger brother Ryszard M. was the culmination of an escalating crime spree ...
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Lubuskie
A row erupted this week over a sculpture placed outside Zielona Gora’s new aquapark, due to the prudishness of the city’s president, Janusz Kubicki. The sculpture, which shows a couple performing gymnastics together, was commissioned to decorate the public facility, but the president was unaware that the finished version wou ...
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Lubelskie
Fire officers fought a massive blaze at a hospital in the centre of Lublin for nine hours this Monday before bringing it under control. Nobody was hurt in the incident, but 34 patients and 30 staff had to be evacuated from the dermatology department of the hospital on Radziwillowska Street. At the height of the fire, as many as ...
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Warminsko-Mazurskie
This Thursday saw the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, one of the largest battles to take place in Mediaeval Europe and one that holds the same place in Polish folklore as the Battle of Hastings does for the English. As is the tradition, this weekend will see a massive reenactment of the battle held on the same field ...
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Podkarpackie
Jacek Kotula, president of the “Contra in vitro” association is threatening Rzeszow MP Tomasz Kulesza with suing him for slander via a religious court. MP Tomasz Kulesza remarked that Kulota was an, “Atheist and a practising unbeliever,” following a conflict over a billboard that Kulota drove around the city on a trailer ...
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Zachodnio-Pomorskie
The race for the Presidential seat of Gorzow Wielkopolska hotted up this week with Artur Radzinski of the Forum for Gorzow declaring he would run against the current President Jedrzejczak, whom he partnered in the last elections.
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Slaskie
Officers of the Central Anticorruption Agency (CBA) this week charged the president of Myslowice, Grzegorz Osyra, with exceeding his authority in allocating housing and making a false declaration of his assets in 2005, charges which Mr Osyra rejects, claiming that the Agency is conducting a witch-hunt against him. The CBA inform ...
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