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An observation of the behaviour of nearly 3 million consumers showed that there was an overall year-on-year decrease in holiday fast food traffic. These types of restaurants also lost customers. Pizzerias recorded two double-digit declines and sandwich and chicken bars recorded two single-digit declines. Other parameters, such as the length of time spent in an establishment or the average number omore

Ministers have been urged not to resurrect Conservative plans to tackle welfare fraud by launching mass algorithmic surveillance of bank accounts. Disability rights, poverty, pensioner and privacy groups fear the government is poised to deliver a “snooper’s charter” by using automation and possibly artificial intelligence to crack down on benefit cheats and mistakes which cost £10bn a year.more

As many as two-thirds of us admit that we eat food whose expiry date has passed; we still do not understand the messages ‘best before’ and ‘should be consumed by’, reports today's Rzeczpospolita.more

Portugal, Ireland, Greece, France and Spain are the EU Member States whose inhabitants are most likely to get cold in winter, according to Eurostat. Poland, on the other hand, is among the six countries with the lowest percentage of inhabitants complaining about the problem.more

In the CBOS survey, 38 per cent of respondents admitted that they see more risks than benefits from the development of artificial intelligence. One in four respondents holds the opposite view. Most believe that the development of AI will increase unemployment.more

Poland has entered a period of demographic crisis, which may be a longer-term trend, the CSO states in a study.more

Among economically active Poles, 45.2 per cent take on assignments outside their main job and 58 per cent of them want to continue or take on additional work in the next six months, according to the study ‘How Poles earn extra money’, conducted in August by SW Research on behalf of Gi Group Poland.more

By 2050, more than 740 million children and adolescents, or nearly 40 per cent of people in this age group, will suffer from myopia, according to an analysis published in the ‘British Journal of Ophthalmology’.more

The DWP is introducing changes along with the Post Office, Ofgem and the banking regulator. A series of nine money and rule changes for Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claimants have been unveiled, set to impact UK households from October 2024. Among these changes is the opening of the Winter Fuel Payment phone lines.more

Plans to expand the Wimbledon Tennis Centre, where the Grand Slam tournament is played, which have already been formally approved by the London authorities, are causing a lot of concern among local residents. These are planning to launch a protest action in the coming days.more

35 per cent of Poles say they are supporters of the government and 38 per cent are opponents; 38 per cent of respondents are satisfied with Donald Tusk as Prime Minister; 50 per cent are dissatisfied. - according to the September CBOS poll.more

A man who is accused of committing a sexual offence within hours of being let out of prison under the government's early release scheme was freed in error, the BBC has been told. Amari Ward, 31, was one of 37 prisoners who should not have been eligible for the early release scheme because they had breached restraining orders.more

77% of EU residents say they have changed their habits in the last five years to use less energy at home. However, the majority want more EU support and believe this will help them keep their bills under control, according to a Eurobarometer survey published yesterday.more

Later this year, 37 percent of the employed want to change jobs, according to the report “Labor Market in Poland.” As added, 27 percent of Polish male and female workers believe that they are paid adequate wages for their skills at their current workplace.more

The Afghan Taliban are beginning to impose severe restrictions on men and some of them regret not fighting for women, whose rights had already been taken away. Now Afghans will be banned from ‘imitating non-Muslims in dress or behaviour’ - reports the ‘Washington Post’.more

92 per cent of Poles know nothing about the risks of using AI technology in the workplace, according to a report on the International Privacy Test. It added that more than 30 per cent of Poles do not know how to secure their home Wi-Fi network.more

London is a noisy city, to massively oversimplify it. Silence in London is really only hearing a dull drum of the cars going down the local road at night as you try to sleep. You can also live near a railway station and hear the terrible sounds of the trains grinding on the tracks, which is a major part of many Londoners' lives. more

Diseases caused by pathogens resistant to available antimicrobial drugs could cause the deaths of more than 39 million people over the next 25 years and indirectly contribute to another 169 million deaths, according to a forecast published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet.more

Money for the so-called “black hour” is set aside by 77.4 percent of Poles aged 18-35, while 12.3 percent have no such savings, according to the report “How do young Poles save for a black hour?”. More than 17.1 percent of respondents have more than PLN 10,000 set aside.more

There are currently 95,119 people in Japan who are over the age of 100, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Their number has been growing continuously for 54 years. As many as 88 percent of seniors (83,958) are women, while there are 11,161 men in this age group.more

Forty per cent of respondents are most likely to spend their free time with their immediate family, 28 per cent exclusively in the company of a loved one, and only 2 per cent of Poles are happy to spend their free time in a wide group, according to a CBOS survey. It also indicated that on average, everyone has three people with whom they can talk about all their problems.more

Families are increasingly turning down requests to donate a relative's organs, sometimes because their loved one's wishes were unknown. With the transplant waiting list at a 10-year high, the NHS is urging people to talk about what they would want.more

Millions of migrants have been urged to register for a new eVisa scheme as campaigners warn the document could create a digital Windrush scandal. The scheme, which will be introduced at the end of the year, is designed to replace physical biometric residence permits that show proof of the right to reside, rent, work and claim benefits with digital eVisas.more

More than 1.7 million households do not plan to turn on their heating this winter – nearly double the 972,000 who said they did not heat their homes last year, according to a survey.more

Poles are mostly satisfied with their state of health. According to 61 percent of respondents, it is at least good. Only 10 per cent believe the opposite, according to the CBOS survey.more