The Nato summit in London approves a plan for the future defence of Poland and the Baltic States despite concerns Turkey might block it. There had been reports that Turkey would make demands of support in its Syria campaign in exchange for approving the Baltic plan.

However yesterday, the Lithuanian President, Gitanas Nauseda, told journalists that no demands had been made and that the plan had been approved.

It’s reported that Turkey’s President Erdogan met with the leaders of Poland and the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia as well as with US President Donald Trump.

Two Killed in a Single Day on the Tricity’s Rail System

Two people died yesterday in separate incidents on railway tracks around Gdansk.

The first, at around 2:30pm yesterday, was a 30 year-old man was killed after having fallen onto the SKM railway tracks between the Gdansk Oliwa and Żabianka stations. 

Details are as yet unknown but witnesses on a train close to the incident described seeing emergency crews rushing onto the tracks.

Following the incident, part of the track 501 between Oliwa and Sopot was closed, meaning delays of up to 47 minutes on some services. 

Just hours later, it’s reported that a woman died in a second incident, on the PKM line between Gdańsk Osowa and Gdynia Karwiny. 

Mission to Bring Over 100 tonnes of Gold to Poland

8000 gold bars, worth about 19 billion PLN, have been returned to Poland in an incredible secret mission.

Newly released photos show how more than 100 tonnes of gold was moved from the Bank of England vaults in London, to the National Bank of Poland in Warsaw.

In the early hours of the 22nd November, four G4S armoured trucks raced from a secret facility outside London carrying wooden boxes full of Polish gold. 

The trucks were escorted by a helicopter and Police with lights flashing to an undisclosed London airport where the boxes were loaded onto a Boeing 737 cargo plane. 

The were greeted in Poland by an elite Police team who took the gold by armoured truck to Narodowy Bank Polski, Poland’s central bank.

The event brings back memories of the nation’s famed gold bullion that left Poland in 1939, at the outbreak of World War Two. It was then taken via Romania, Turkey, and Africa to London. Some went on to New York and Ottawa. 

This daring operation, although rooted in Poland’s current economic surplus, retraced the old bullion’s steps and in a sense, has brought back top grade gold bullion to Warsaw in one of the biggest movements of gold between banks in history. 

Two New Monuments Coming to Gdansk

Two famous figures from Gdańsk’s recent history are to be remembered with new monuments.

Pop singer, Irena Jarocka, will be remembered with a new monument in the district of Oliwa, in the square already named after her.

And Kaszubian-Pomeranian writer, journalist, and activist Lech Bądkowski will be memorialised with a new monument in downtown Gdansk.

The monuments are being paid for by private groups.

The Weather

Brighter but colder than yesterday, with clear, sunny skies and temperatures reaching a high of 4°C, 39°F.

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