The number of hotels being used to house asylum seekers has risen by seven since the general election, the government has disclosed.
Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle told MPs that 220 hotels were now in use, with 14 opened and seven closed since the July poll.more
Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrei Kielin has stated that the authorities in London are “directly involved” in the war in Ukraine, as British Storm Shadow missiles have been used to attack facilities on Russian territory, Sky News reported yesterday.more
The coronation of King Charles in May 2023 cost taxpayers at least £72 million (€86 million), official figures have revealed.
The cost of policing the ceremony was £21.7 million with a further £50.3 million in costs racked up by Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).more
Robert Kubica will again compete behind the wheel of a Ferrari in the WEC (World Endurance Championship) long-distance championship next year. This was announced yesterday by the Italian team AF Corse, which is the manufacturer of the brand's cars competing in the Hypercar class.more
Already every 16th child born in our country is a foreigner. In Lower Silesia, even every 10th is a foreigner, the ‘Rzeczpospolita’ reported yesterday.more
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland is back for 2024/25! The festive fair with rides, bratwurst, ice sculpting and much more is set to be full of visitors getting in the Christmas mood.
The London Christmas fair features over 100 rides, live shows, and more food and drink stalls than you can imagine.more
An unprecedented number of tourists have arrived in Portugal in 2024, the authorities of the Confederation of Tourism of Portugal (CTP) estimate less than six weeks before the end of this year.more
According to the soccer statistics website Squawka, Marcin Bulka is one of three goalkeepers in Europe's top five leagues who defended more than 50 shots this season. The Polish national team player and OGC Nice player also prevented the most goals.more
Almost 100,000 E.On customers with pre-payment metres will receive an average of £144 each because of an billing error by the energy supplier, the regulator Ofgem has said.more
The rate at which primary school pupils are being suspended from state schools in England has more than doubled in a decade, BBC analysis suggests.more
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated today that the US anti-missile base in Poland has long been among the possible priority targets for Russia. MFA spokesman Pavel Vronsky stressed that the Redzikowo installation is purely defensive in nature.more
Britain and Moldova signed a defense and security agreement yesterday. According to the British Foreign Office, the agreement should, in particular, allow Moldova to “strengthen its resilience” in the face of threats from Russia.more
After 10 years of serving his sentence, Anders Breivik has applied for early release. In an opinion presented at Wednesday's court hearing, experts concluded that he still posed a threat to society.more
The Italian women's tennis team defeated the Slovakian women 2:0 in the final of the Billie Jean King Cup team tournament, held in Malaga. This is the fifth ever, and first since 2013, triumph for the team from the Apennine Peninsula.more
Ukraine has, for the first time, fired on targets in Russia with British-made longer-range Storm Shadow missiles, the Bloomberg news agency reported yesterday, citing officials from Western countries, who requested anonymity.more
Another volcanic eruption occurred on the night of Wednesday-Thursday on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, local officials reported. A red glow is visible from the country's capital Reykjavik.more
Two-thirds of British drivers don’t know how to drive safely on icy roads, a new survey has found.
The study, which aimed to determine how many drivers would pass their theory test if they retook it based on their knowledge of winter driving, found just two per cent of Brits would receive a passing score.more
Citizens of the European Union are most concerned about problems related to border protection and the threat of terrorism, according to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation conducted in the 27 EU member states. In Poland, 29% of respondents consider a military attack to be the greatest threat.more
Born in Prestatyn, Wales, on 31 May 1938, John Prescott, the son of a railwayman, left school aged 15 to work as a trainee chef, then as a steward on the Cunard Line before entering politics in a career that spanned decades.more
From January 2025, Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdańsk will join the group of so-called silent airports, i.e. without announcements from loudspeakers about the start of boarding or the last call for departure of the plane, the airport authorities announced.more
The authorities of the football club Barcelona have announced that the team will play its first match at the modernized Camp Nou stadium in mid-February at the earliest. The plans assumed that the return to the facility for the 125th anniversary would take place in November - the fcbarca.com portal reported.more
The rebranding of the London Overground will start on Wednesday, Transport for London has announced.
It said a “small number” of stations would feature the new livery, with the Overground’s orange-coloured network broken down into six lines each with their own name and colour.more
Four southern giant hornets (Vespa soror) have been identified for the first time in northern Spain. If the invasive species becomes widespread, it could threaten local insects, reports the journal Ecology and Evolution.more
More than one in three children and a quarter of adults are living in poverty in the UK as deprivation levels rise to the highest in the 21st century, according to a landmark report.more
