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Top chef uncovers best Polish restaurants in the UK

Published online this week, and already endorsed by the food writer Tom Parker-Bowles (son of the Queen consort), Damian Wawrzyniak’s Top 10 was created in response to what he sees as a gap in the market and a desire to publicise ethnic restaurants that have often gone under-the-radar. Damian Wawrzyniak

Published online this week, and already endorsed by the food writer Tom Parker-Bowles (son of the Queen consort), Damian Wawrzyniak’s Top 10 was created in response to what he sees as a gap in the market and a desire to publicise ethnic restaurants that have often gone under-the-radar.

Mamma Mia! Here she goes again: Rosati wins Best Actress in a Foreign Film award

The Warsaw-born actress was awarded for her leading role in 'It's Not Over', an Italian-Scottish thriller filmed in Scotland and directed by Italy’s Alessandro Riccardi.

Endurance swimmer to become first ever Pole to swim length of Loch Ness as he raises money for hospital beds

Completing the 36-km ‘Loch Ness “MONSTER” Swim’, endurance swimmer Piotr Biankowski will be raising money for the Ronald McDonald Foundation in Poland.

Polish village rediscovering its long-forgotten 19th-century Scottish heritage

In June 2020, Marek Suchocki from the Regional Muzeum of Jadów established the Jadów Historical Society where he quickly began taking an interest in the restoration of the village’s Scottish cemetery.

Race on to save historic Polish club set up in Scotland by veterans after WWII

Founded by two veterans who were unable to return to Poland after the war, the Polish club in Kirkcaldy, Fife, has been a centre of social and cultural life for almost 70 years. Now locals have signed a petition to stop it being sold.

English Heritage issues plea for memories of elite Polish unit that trained at UK stately home during WWII

The Cichociemni, or the Silent Unseen, were elite special-operations paratroopers trained in the UK to carry out covert operations, sabotage and intelligence-gathering in occupied Poland. Most of them completed their training at Audley End House, an early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England, one of the finest Jacobean houses in the UK.

Painting of WWII Polish Paratrooper chosen as unsung gem of British art

Currently housed inside St Andrews Museum, Scotland, and taking approximately seven weeks to complete, the painting depicts a Polish paratrooper who has just landed at Arnhem; from his bag, personal keepsakes have spilled onto the pebbled ground. The artist said: “I wanted the painting to show what the soldier was fighting for: his family; his homeland.”

Poland put on quarantine lists in England and Scotland - ministry

Travellers arriving in England and Scotland from Poland will have to self-isolate for 14 days from early morning on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry has reported, adding that they will also have to provide the address of their stay.

Gorgeous amber chess set returns to Gdańsk after 300 years

The rare set, of which there are only four in the world, came with a hefty price tag: the museum bought it for around 2.4 million złoty (over 0.5 million euros).

Touching WWII love story between Polish musician and Scottish nurse uncovered after discovery of haunting waltz

The melancholy piece entitled A Girl’s Tears by musician Bolesław ‘Bollo’ Ilnicki was found in a Scottish hospital where he composed it for the nurse who had looked after him in 1940.

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Netflix braces itself for national backlash from diehard fans over its remake of legendary film Znachor

In anticipation of reaction to its modern-day take on the 1982 classic about an outstanding surgeon who loses his memory following an attack, Netflix posted on social media: "Ladies and gentlemen, Your Honour, this is Leszek Lichota as Rafal Wilczur. Znachor is coming to Netflix in the second half of the year."

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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