 | Freezing temperatures have descended on Poland, with a low of -25 expected in Suwalki this Thursday evening as a high pressure region invades from Russia. Even during the day, temperatures this Friday are expected to be as low as -15 in the north-east, reaching a balmy -9 in Lower Slask. Full Story > > |
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Mazowsze
A drunk motorist went on the rampage in Natolin after causing an accident, running riot with a spade and a sledgehammer and damaging five cars in total. The incident began when the 32-year-old crashed into an oncoming Skoda. He got out of his vehicle and began to attack the other vehicle with the heavy implements, smashing the w ...
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Podlaskie
Three men died and one more is seriously injured in hospital following an accident on the site of a new shopping mall in Suwalki this Wednesday morning. The four men fell 14m from scaffolding on a site which has already seen three other serious accidents and one other death in the last month. Health and Safety officials are inve ...
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Wielkopolskie
Poznan police arrested four men this week for rape and attempting to force a 19-year-old girl and her 40-year-old mother, both from Szamotuly, into prostitution. The girl and her mother, both of whom have been unemployed for a long time, travelled to Poznan after an acquaintance told them about well-paid work in the UK, putting ...
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Pomorskie
Gdansk City Hall are wrestling with the problem of parking in the city centre, unable to decide whether to press ahead with plans for underground car parks, or whether to impose severe restrictions on the amount of traffic allowed. “The city centre is overrun by cars, as can be clearly seen in the courtyards, streets and on th ...
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Swietokrzyskie
A 28-year-old man was arrested by police in Ostrowiec this Sunday evening for stealing ten pairs of knickers in a string of separate incidents. Following the final theft, a pair that were hanging out to dry, the owner of the knickers alerted police, who were able to follow the man’s footprints through the snow which led them d ...
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Lodzkie
Six large, stray dogs have been terrorising the Widzew region of Lodz for the last month, attacking people and cars, while the authorities appear to be doing nothing to address the problem. They are running wild in a mainly industrial area, between Dabrowski and Puszkin streets, making them a threat to all the workers that go th ...
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Dolnoslaskie
A row is brewing over the rail line running from Wroclaw centre to the city’s airport, an important element of the infrastructure required to host Euro 2012. The funds for the line, PLN 85mln are in place and applications for EU support are on the way to approval. An earlier problem regarding the intersection of the railway li ...
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Malopolskie
The owner of two pitbull terriers that attacked a five-year-old Italian girl in a Krakow restaurant last August (see NPE 31/34) is to appear in court charged with endangering the child’s life. The young girl was a guest in Jolanta O.’s restaurant on ul. Grodzka and was heading for the toilet at the rear of the building when ...
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Kujawsko-Pomorskie
The term ‘seadog’ took on a literal meaning this week when a dog was rescued, drifting on pack ice 15 miles out in the bay of Gdansk, having started its journey four days before, 80 miles inland. The dog was first spotted on the Wisla at Grudziadz last Saturday, stranded in the ice floe, but local fire officers were unable t ...
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Opolskie
A row has broken out at Opole University over a proposal to award the film director Krzysztof Zanussi an honorary doctorate following his controversial comments on the Roman Polanski paedophilia case. A small group of students and people connected with the anti-communist underground protested outside the meeting discussing the p ...
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Lubuskie
Police in Zielona Gora trying to catch the rapist that has been at large since the end of Jan this year are being misled by false rape claims, with half of the attacks turning out to be fake. This Wednesday Zielona Gora police established that the young girl from Swidnica who claimed to be a victim of the Zielona Gora rapist was ...
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Lubelskie
Plans are afoot for a new PLN 50mln road bridge across the Wisla between Kamien in Lubelskie and Solec nad Wisla in Mazowieckie, planned to be completed in four years. The planned bridge will constitute an important road link between three regions (the third being Swietokrzyskie) as well as save locals from an 80km detour. Curre ...
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Warminsko-Mazurskie
The case began this week in an Olsztyn court of 26-year-old Lukasz N., accused of attempting to murder a 16-year-old cyclist in an incident that took place in May 2009. The young girl, Paulina, and her friend went cycling on May 22nd last year and were passed by a red Fiat 126 at about 8pm. Shortly after the car turned round and ...
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Podkarpackie
A fisherman from Przemysl was rescued in dramatic circumstances after drifting 2km on pack ice, one of the fire officers who went to his rescue being seriously injured in the process. On Tuesday around noon a large clump of ice broke away from the bank of the river San. The angler didn’t notice or react quickly enough and was ...
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Zachodnio-Pomorskie
A 24-year-old man from the small village of Trzechel has been arrested following a brutal assault on a 10-year-old girl this Monday. The girl, named Sylwia, was found at 10pm lying on a table in front of a local shop, where men frequently gather to drink beer. She was unconscious, covered in blood and hypothermic. She was taken ...
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Slaskie
Gorzow Transport Company officials are up in arms, preparing to defy the citizens’ rights ombudsman, Janusz Kochanowski, over the authority of their ticket inspectors to hold fare dodgers against their will. The ombudsman recently issued an edict declaring that not allowing fare dodgers to disembark the tram or bus until they ...
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