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Last weekend lucky citizens of the Tri-City (Trójmiasto – Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia) area were able to enjoy their first ride on the new Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway (PKM) train. The PKM Open Day attracted thousands of people curious to see and photograph the new trains, and take a ride to the
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There are 853 thousand Polish citizens living in the UK as at 2014. They represent the largest national group among those without a British passport, according to yesterday’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) report. Citizens of India (365 thous.) and Ireland (331 thous.) are the other two largest groups.
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Some will remember this day as very sad, others will breathe a sigh of relief. Controversial, destroyed and set on fire many times, the rainbow disappeared from the Saviour square in Warsaw (Plac Zbawiciela). This morning, with the help of heavy equipment, workers removed it. The controversial Warsaw rainbow Preparations
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Lark, MyPhone, Pentagram, Kruger & Matz, GoClever – these are not the names of Western companies, but Polish companies producing smartphones and tablets. These brands are pushing forward on the domestic market, but do they actually have a chance to challenge the global giants? Polish smartphones are often called B brands,
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Solidarity in Poland, “Solidarność”, is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. The Public Opinion Research Centre has just published a report in which they present public views on the establishment of the Solidarity trade unions in the early 80s. SEE ALSO: “Father of Poland’s economic success” urges Greece to
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Over 35 million – the record-breaking win happened on Saturday evening. The lucky new millionaire comes from Ziębice in Lower Silesia, a town of less than 10,000 citizens. 35 million złoty – record lottery win No one has ever won so much money in a Polish lottery. Only one person
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Bottlenose dolphin off the coast of Poland First, news reached the Hel Marine Station on 8th August. Specialists from the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Gdańsk were informed that a bottlenose dolphin was seen near Hel, but there were no pictures to prove it. We accepted the information
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Queues to doctors and generally poor quality of the National Health Fund (NFZ) offer are the reasons for a growing number of people and companies taking out private health insurance policies – reports “Rzeczpospolita”. After the first quarter of this year, there were already more than 1.2 million private health
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New microapartments in Warsaw called Wolska2 have now become available for purchase. The 14 to 31sqm flats will be finished and furnished. The investor is a company called Dantex. Wolska2 in Warsaw is the answer to the needs of customers who want to live in the heart of the city
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The Netflix Poland website has changed from “Not available in your country” to “Not available yet” and added an invitation box for future users to enter an email address, in order to be notified on launch. It’s more significant than it seems. On-demand without adverts If they follow
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Blue-green algae (cyanosis) are quickly taking over all Polish seaside resorts. Within only a few days red flags have been placed on beaches from Rewa to Stogi and Sobieszewo in Gdańsk. There are no-bathing signs in towns along the Hel peninsula as well. The toxic blue-green algae
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This year there have been more than 1,300 “grandchild” scams in Poland. Just in Warsaw scammers have extorted approx. 10 million zł. What is the “grandchild” scam? It’s quite simple really. A scammer skims a phone book in search of a name common among the elderly, then calls