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Thursday 15th May 2014

Motorway pile-up kills three people

A mother, father and their four-year-old child were killed late on Saturday evening in a multi-car pile-up on the S8 highway.

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The 11 vehicle crash took place in heavy fog and left cars strewn across the carriageway

 NATIONAL

Rainbow row

A drunken man was arrested this week after attempting to burn down the rainbow which ...

• Tusk saddened at family auction
• Stalinist victims’ bodies found
• Cop killed by prisoner
• Search on for rapists

 BUSINESS

New Dreamliner takes to the skies

Warsaw’s Chopin Airport saw the latest Dreamliner aircraft land last Thursday (May 1) - the ...

• US trade at record high
• Increase in new cars
• Chopin figures down
• Property prices set to remain

 REGIONAL

Mazowsze

Warsaw’s Bemowo district this week elected a new mayor and other officials after mass resignations ...

Dolnoslaskie

Five hooligans were arrested after participating in a mass assault with baseball bats on fans ...

Pomorskie

Gdynia-Kosakowo airport was declared bankrupt this week following an EU ruling that forced the operating ...

 SPORT

Two-horse title race still on

After dividing points in two and another two match weeks played, Legia maintained the gap ...

Ekstraklasa into the home straight

It may be wolves versus lambs in the most interesting game of the round 31 ...

• Wisla’s wheels coming off
• Weekend to settle the title?
• Szczecin remain unbeaten in 2014
• Ruch on the rise

 IN BRIEF

Boots for booty

A 17-year-old Polish girl has made waves online by offering up her virginity for a pair of boots.

Road crashes on the rise

Almost 90,000 drivers in Poland were issued with fines last year for talking on their phones whilst driving say new ...

• Teacher baby scandal
• Canonisation cash in
• Prison break
• Tragic teen suicide

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RIP Warsaw's Russian Market A Warsaw legend that is no more

As 2012 and the European Football Championships approach, Poland's new multi-million euro national stadium complex can be seen growing by the day over on the Praga, east bank, of the ... -

When history was revised The Recovered Territories Exhibition

In 1948, Wrocław’s Centennial Hall (Hala Stulecia) played host to the largest, most organised propaganda event in Poland’s history: The Recovered Territories Exhibition. An official term coined by Poland’s post-war ... -