Poland has decided to expel two Belarusian consuls, a Polish deputy foreign minister said on Friday, following a similar move by the authorities in Minsk. The tit-for-tat response is the latest in a spat between the neighbouring countries, and means they have now decided to expel three diplomats each. The series of expulsions started earlier this week when a diplomat from the Polish Consulate General in Brest was told to leave Belarus after taking part in an event to honour Poland’s post-World War II anticommunist resistance fighters.
Source – Polskie Radio
The more contagious so-called British variant of the coronavirus now accounts for close to 40 percent of all COVID-19 cases in Poland, according to the Polish Health Minister.
Source – Polskie Radio
A film telling the story of how a painting by Spanish master El Greco was discovered in a rural Polish parish has been premièred in a Warsaw cinema this week.
The documentary, entitled The Polish El Greco, shows how the The Ecstasy of St Francis was uncovered in 1964 by two Polish art historians in a small town in eastern Poland, hanging on a wall over a sofa in a priest’s apartment.
While mystery still surrounds the early history of the painting, it was established that the work was purchased in a Warsaw antique shop in 1927 as a gift for the parish priest. Following its cinema première on this week, it will be shown on TV for the first time on March 31st.
Source – Polskie Radio
Police, fire and ambulance services attended a serious collision on Spacerowa street last night between a car and a bus in which the car driver died at the scene.
The accident is thought to have happened as the car attempted some kind of manoeuvre, colliding with the oncoming bus in the opposite lane, killing the car driver and seriously injuring his female passenger. The driver of the bus and the 10 passengers aboard the bus were not injured. Spacerowa street was closed late into the evening.
Source – trojmiasto.pl
Weather
Today will be a cloudy day with light rain showers and a moderate breeze with temperatures reaching 8 degrees centigrade (46 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 3 degrees overnight. Sunday will be a rainy day with a fresh breeze and temperatures reaching a feeble 4 degrees during the day and 1 degree overnight.
