Hungarian Wizz Air has launched two new connections from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Spain. From March this year, the airline will fly twice a week to Bilbao, and from April, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, to Seville, the carrier announced.more
A critical incident has been declared at Dover, as car and coach passengers face lengthy delays due to long border processing times and bad weather. P&O Ferries reported coach delays of three hours this morning - and people in cars said they too were stuck. Some coaches, including for school trips, had to wait at the port overnight and around 400 more were expected to arrive today.more
Martin Lewis warns anyone with a driving licence to pay £14 now to avoid a £1,000 fine. More than two million people in the UK have an out-of-date driving licence, according to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
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Poles composed of Aleksander Zniszczoł, Paweł Wąsek, Kamil Stoch and Piotr Żyła took fourth place in the team competition of the Ski Flying World Cup in Planica, Slovenia. Austria won ahead of Slovenia and Norway.more
The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is applying for the post of secretary general of NATO, the British daily The Sun reported today, citing diplomatic sources.more
An average of nearly 825 times a day, water companies in England discharged untreated sewage into rivers and the sea last year, the government's Environment Agency (EA), which is responsible for protecting England's environment, said yesterday.more
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the "immoral" decision of the organizers of the Wimbledon Grand Slam to allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to participate in the tournament under a neutral flag.more
Samantha Markle has accused her half-sister of libel against the Duchess of Sussex in the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021. However, the trial will not take place, because the famous American 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting e.g. restricting freedom of speech.more
Four dead and several injured in avalanches near Tromsoe in northern Norway yesterday, Norwegian police said. On the island of Reinoya, a landslide swept a house with two people into the sea, their bodies were found in the water.more
Piotr Żyła took third place in the individual competition of the Ski Flying World Cup in Planica. Kamil Stoch was 10th, Aleksander Zniszczol 14th, and Andrzej Stękała 40th. Austrian Stefan Kraft won ahead of Slovenian Anze Lanisk.more
Portugal's parliament passed a law legalizing euthanasia yesterday. The deputies of the ruling Socialist Party of Prime Minister Antonio Costa and representatives of the opposition liberal-left groups supported the adoption of this legal act.more
Magda Linette and American Bernarda Pera lost to American Taylor Townsend and Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-1, 2-6, 12-14 in the doubles semifinal of the WTA 1000 tennis tournament on hard courts in Miami ($8.8 million prize pool).more
In 2022, there were 572,806 private jet flights in Europe. This is a record level of such trips and an increase of 64 percent. compared to 2021, informs the Belga agency.more
Russian oligarch and former owner of Chelsea London club Roman Abramovich secretly sponsored Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem for many years, according to the findings of journalists of the British newspaper "The Guardian".more
Amazon workers in Coventry - the first in the UK to strike - are to take a further six days of industrial action in a continuing dispute over pay. Strikes by GMB union members will be from 16 to 18 April and 21 to 23 April. It follows action earlier this year.more
Strikes against pension reform in France are a challenge for summer tourism, not only in this country, say European media. This is also a problem for airlines who complain about frequent industrial action by French air traffic controllers.more
On March 24-27, 2023, Research Partner conducted another survey of Poles' political preferences on the Ariadna panel. This time, the popularity of politicians who could run in the presidential election in 2025 was examined.more
Around 1.7 million workers will get a “significant” pay boost when the national minimum wage (NLW) increases from Saturday – but food price inflation continues to outstrip rises in earnings during the cost of living crisis.more
"The main epidemic problem in the country is influenza. These are the reasons why we maintain the state of epidemic threat" - announced today the Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski. He noted that he addressed to the heads of offices with a request to analyze the legislative context of withdrawing the state of epidemic emergency.more
The organizers of Wimbledon intend to allow the Russians and Belarusians to start in the tournament as neutral players, the All England Club announced today. In the last edition of the tournament, tennis players from these countries could not start due to the war in Ukraine.more