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It is "too early" to know whether summer holidays can go ahead, the health secretary has said. Matt Hancock said there was still "a lot of uncertainty" but ministers were doing everything possible to make sure people could have a holiday this year. He told the BBC he had booked his own summer break in Cornwall "months ago".more

A maximum 10-year jail term for lying about recent travel history has been defended by the government.more

Britain’s youngest ever convicted terrorist, who led a neo-Nazi cell from his grandmother’s house, has been sentenced to a two-year non-custodial rehabilitation order.more

Over 70 percent Poles would like a more lenient abortion law in relation to the law that has been in force since the publication of the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of Julia Przyłębska, "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports today, citing the results of the United Surveys poll.more

A maximum 10-year jail term for lying about recent travel history has been defended by the government. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the British public "would expect pretty strong action" and the maximum sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime.more

British developer Patrick Diter has just eighteen months to raze his $70million French mansion to the ground, after a French court declared in December 2020 that he had built the Tuscan palace without the proper legal permits.more

The debate comes after a constitutional court ruling in Poland resulted in the almost complete ban on abortion that took effect in late January.more

The Georgia secretary of state’s office opened an investigation on Monday into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, according to a new report. more

A district court in Gothenburg in the south of Sweden has cleared two Swedish filmmakers of "grave infringement" of the wreck of the ferry "Estonia" lying on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The wreckage rests the remains of most of the 852 victims of the vessel sinking in 1994.more

A Scottish law firm is considering taking legal action against processing companies in the Northeast of Scotland whose facilities have been hit by the coronavirus outbreak. Handling personal injury claims, Thompsons Solicitors Scotland works closely with trade unions and health and safety charities.more

Due to the pandemic and new variants of the coronavirus, more European countries limit travel. France has closed itself on newcomers from outside the EU, Belgium has banned tourist travel until the end of March, and the UK will introduce mandatory hotel quarantine for its citizens returning from the most epidemically dangerous countries.more

The Spanish Ministry for Equality has drafted a drafbill on Real and Effective Transgender Equality, which is to be reviewed by the coalition government of the socialist PSOE and the far-left Podemos bloc by the end of February. The preliminary draft legislation on transgender issues provides that a self-declaration would be sufficient to change gender and name in the civil registry.more

A new report is recommending the Netherlands immediately halt the adoption of babies and children from abroad because of ‘serious abuses’, the AD reported on Friday, quoting sources close to the cabinet.more

Piers Corbyn has been arrested over leaflets comparing the UK's Covid-19 vaccine rollout to Auschwitz. The 73-year-old brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he voluntarily attended a police station on Wednesday.more

The airport in Wrocław carries out quick anti-agent tests for passengers returning to Poland from non Schengen area in front of border control posts, i.e. before crossing the state border. A negative test result allows you to be released from a 10-day quarantine. The validity of these studies is questioned by the Ministry of Health.more

The boss of Test and Trace has told MPs around 20,000 people a day are not self-isolating when they should be. more

A Ryanair ad encouraging people to book summer holidays because 'vaccines are coming' has been pulled after backlash from viewers.more

Bank Millennium is not afraid that the conversion of CHF mortgages will result in the necessity to replenish the capital - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports today.more

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced to two and a half years in prison over probation violation charges. The ruling comes two weeks after Navalny was arrested upon his return to Moscow from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlinmore

While some countries and companies see electronic "vaccine passports" as the key to unlocking international travel and tourism, not everyone is thrilled with such solutions. The idea provokes resistance from the institution and raises ethical controversy.more

Your pocket guide to the key dates to look out for in the coming months, when the Government has promised us things will happen in 2021 as the UK looks to emerge from the third coronavirus lockdown.more

The guitar sent from Italy to the UK became a "victim of Brexit", the Italian press reported. The instrument was blocked by British Customs, which demanded the origin of the wood it was made of.more

Two men who were involved in organising a mass snowball fight in Leeds have been given a £10,000 fine each. more

Customers escaped an illegal hair salon through a fire escape and were captured on CCTV running away from the scene after a police raid. more

The revelations of yesterday's publications related to the government's "voluntary return" program, aimed primarily at illegal immigrants in the UK, are still echoing. Despite the provisions on this subject on the website of the British government, Poles still have a number of doubts about who this program concerns and what it is really intended for. Londynek.net asked Home Office about it.more