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The Prime Minister is set to deliver an update to the public today as the number of coronavirus cases has reached its highest level since the start of the pandemic. more

A Covid-19 vaccine will not be ready to inoculate the entire UK population until the end of 2021, Downing Street said.more

39-year-old Tomasz Wiśniewski from Worcester became the first Pole in Worcester to receive the prestigious Mayor's Best of Worcester Award from the mayor himself. The Pole was recognized for his work for the benefit of local communities in Worcester with a population of 100,000.more

Children younger than 12 in England should be exempt from the ‘rule of six’ law on social gatherings, a new report has warned. more

You are on the wrong side of history when it comes to LGBT - said the US ambassador to Poland in an interview for Wirtualna Polska. I have great respect for the religious tradition of the country in which I am an ambassador, but human rights are universal regardless of the dominant religion - reminded Georgette Mosbacher. more

By 2030, 30 percent the territory of Great Britain will be national parks and other protected areas, declared Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday.more

Nearly 2 million people in north-east England face being fined up to £6,400 if they mix with other households indoors in a significant extension of the government’s lockdown powers.more

By this afternoon, restrictions on the use of public space due to the Covid-19 epidemic have been introduced by the authorities of 90 Spanish cities. The largest of these is the country's capital, Madrid.more

The Polish Ministry of Health has prepared a portal that gives every doctor access to the coronavirus test result of any person, if they know their PESEL number. Experts say it's a violation of the GDPR - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more

London was added to the national watch list yesterday amid the rising number of coronavirus infections. So far, almost all of the cities on this list have eventually been subject to additional restrictions.more

Ukrainian women cleaning in Polish homes are often asked by Polish women with whom they work to cook dinners for their families in the underground - we learn from the book "Ukrainian women. What do they think about Poles with whom they work?" that they are proficient in culinary arts.more

In the UK, 6,874 new coronavirus infections were detected in the last 24 hours, a new daily record since the beginning of the epidemic. The R number, indicating how fast the coronavirus epidemic is growing, has risen from 1.1-1.4 to 1.2-1.5.more

Charities dealing with men who suffer domestic abuse have seen pleas for help jump by up to 60% during the lockdown.more

The UK is at a “perilous turning point” and must act, Boris Johnson has told MPs, announcing new restrictions for England including slashing the size of wedding celebrations and bans on indoor team sports, as well as a return to home working.more

A ban on visiting other people's homes is to be imposed across Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.more

Keir Starmer is to appeal directly to “red wall” voters who abandoned the party last year to “take another look at Labour”, telling them his party loves Britain and is under new leadership.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to make an announcement on Tuesday that could see tougher lockdown rules put into place across the UK.more

For the first time in history, the United Nations celebrated International Equal Pay Day. As Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the organization underlined, the unequal status of women at work also fuels inequalities in other areas of their lives.more

The Polish social cinema POSK Cinema at the Polish Social and Cultural Center (POSK) in London was voted the best social cinema in Great Britain.more

People were eager to get out to bars and clubs last night, with the prospect of a potential second national lockdown looming.more

It is “increasingly likely” that lockdown restrictions will soon be needed to slow the spread of coronavirus in London, the capital’s mayor has warned. London mayor Sadiq Khan said he was of the “firm view” that action should be taken before the virus spirals out of control, and leaders were considering measures already imposed in other parts of the UK.more

Boris Johnson will spend the weekend considering whether to tighten Covid-19 measures in England, after saying the UK was "now seeing a second wave". The government is understood to be looking at a ban on households mixing, and reducing opening hours for pubs and restaurants.more

Harvey Weinstein, a former US film producer who is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault, was stripped of his 2004 Order of the British Empire by the Queen, it was announced.more

A Fianna Fáil MEP has hit back at a senior Polish politician that attacked Ireland for improving LGBT rights. Billy Kelleher's intervention comes after former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski claimed Ireland has become a "Catholic wilderness with rampant LGBT ideology".more

Following the words of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin about the "ferocity" of French society, there is a public debate about the increase in the number of acts of violence, as reflected in police statistics.more