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Rock around the lockdown: music stars take to Facebook to help the elderly

Banding together: the music stars perform at home for charity. /Facebook

The stars will perform concerts live in their homes as a way of raising money for charity.

Read all about it! Indie bookstores get helping hand to weather lockdown storm

The ‘Resistant Bookshops’ project organised by Kraków’s Festival Office and the city’s Mayor’s office will see local independent bookstores receive up to 10,000 zł each to help get through the lockdown.

Raise money to fight recession, Poland’s finance minister tells EU

Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński said the creation of a fund could be used to combat a recession that is predicted to sweep across the EU. EU should create a recession-fighting fund by giving itself tax-raising powers and by putting big global companies in the taxation cross-hairs.

Polish celebrity chef saves his bacon despite Covid lockdown

Chef and restaurateur Damian Wawrzyniak has gone from managing Michelin-starred kitchens to baking bread for delivery to adapt to the pandemic lockdown.

Daredevils relieve lockdown boredom by parachuting out of block of flats

Stunned neighbours captured the extraordinary stunt on camera phone as the men leaped out the apartment block in the capital Warsaw.

‘I’ve worked in Michelin kitchens, but now I’m on my bike delivering takeaways’: how leading chef turned lockdown nightmare into platter of success

A believer in hard work, famed chef Damien Wawrzyniak is busier than ever cooking food for the locked-down masses.

New app plots way to avoid coronavirus in daily life

The app tells individual users which areas to avoid and which areas are safe.

Coronavirus Diary #7

After a month in lockdown, The Debrief host John Beauchamp pines for the open road and is showing signs of going slightly mad...

Epidemic restrictions relaxed from Monday

Current epidemic restrictions in Poland will be relaxed as of Monday, the government said on Thursday, changes will include the reopening of forests and parks to the public.

Cosmetics ‘shop’ with a difference helps victims of domestic violence

When customers place an order they are actually sending a secret message outlining the abuse they are suffering. Website operators then check on the sender’s wellbeing and if necessary alert the police.

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History

Rare WWII tank ‘worth a fortune’ salvaged from Kielce river after disappearing 78 years ago

Stories of heavy armour lost in the Czarna Nida river have circulated for decades following a ferocious battle in the Bielecki Młyny area towards the end of WWII. Now, described as an ‘absolute rarity’ the Bergepanther tank which has been remarkably well-preserved could be worth a fortune, with a similar Panther tank fetching around 15 million euros in Germany just two years ago.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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