On Thursday, the fire department recorded nearly 1.600 storm-related interventions, mainly in Lesser Poland, Mazovia, Łódzkie and Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeships, informed the spokesperson of State Fire Service, Paweł Frątczak. One scout campsite has been evacuated.

"On Friday I will submit in the Senate a draft resolution on holding a nationwide referendum on 10-11 November, regarding changes to the Constitution," President Andrzej Duda announced today.

Polish parliament passed a bill on Friday introducing changes to the voting system in the elections to the European Parliament. The changes include a provision that each constituency will have at least three candidates for MEPs assigned to it.

"According to the constitutional law, there can be no doubt that Professor Gersdorf holds an office from which she cannot be recalled," said the former President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Professor Andrzej Rzepliński in TVN24 "Tak jest".

Nearly 2.000 interventions of fire department, 32 damaged buildings, hundreds of fallen trees, contaminated water intakes, scout campsites evacuated - this is the latest summary of damages resulting from heavy rainfalls in many regions of Poland.

Business news. The construction sector is booming, while the results for industry are as expected, but still very good. The housing market, however, is the best it's been in 30 years.

"Until Amber Gold went bust I wasn't interested in the case. I don't believe, however, this scheme would have been stopped had the fiscal institutions been functioning properly. The police, prosecutor and Internal Security Agency all had instruments to prevent the scandal," Jacek Rostowski, former finance minister in the Civic Platform - Polish People's Party coalition government said on Wednesday.

The "Citizens of Poland", the All-Poland Women's Strike, and the Committee for the Defence of Democracy are standing shoulder to shoulder in opposition to further changes to the judiciary. During the protest, a group of people attempted to prevent MP Kornel Morawiecki, a father of PM Mateusz Morawiecki, from entering the parliament. This behaviour was condemned by the leader of Citizens of Poland, Paweł Kasprzak.

"According to the law, Małgorzata Gersdorf isn't the Supreme Court's President anymore. Therefore, as any serious state should be able to handle such situation in a legal way, we propose a new legislation which is meant to end the impasse," said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday, relating to a draft amendment to the Supreme Court law.

Małgorzata Gersdorf, who the Polish government says is now retired but who insists her term as the Supreme Court head runs until 2020, walked into the court on Wednesday saying the situation was "very tense and dramatic".

Silesian Police are on a quest to find... Jesus. A man robbed a local chapel and among other things, stole the figure of Christ from the cross. Because the investigation has only led to dead ends, the security footage was made public today.

It was a horrible story everyone in Poland was talking about - will it finally have a happy ending? Fijo the dog is back in Poland and is now looking for a new owner. The dog was tormented by its previous owner and had to undergo physiotherapy abroad.

Poland's latest employment statistics, recent developments of the Polish Development Fund and record number of travellers in Warsaw's Chopin airport. Business news with Mateusz Walczak.

Fire in the historical Gdańsk shipyard. The billowing smoke could be seen from miles around as one of the warehouses was ablaze. Fortunately, when the fire broke out the building was empty and nobody got hurt. Operation to extinguish the flames lasted several hours.

Court documents, parliamentary voting cards and other sensitive files have been found in an old, deserted state-run farm in Ożarów Mazowiecki, west of Warsaw. Documents that shouldn't have been there. A pile of burnt papers have been discovered and now the police are investigating.

Designer drugs seem to have become a real plague in Poland. The subject keeps returning despite many years of appeals. Young people are still using these dangerous substances. Can a new law doling out hefty sentences prevent put an end to this problem?

Next stage of legal proceedings in the case of four policemen involved in the death of Igor Stachowiak while he was in police custody. Yesterday the court heard testimonies of two witnesses who filmed the apprehention of the victim on a square in Wrocław. Experts who researched the footage from the witnesses' phones and from video recorders at Wrocław - Stare Miasto police station also took the stand.

A presidential pardon before a legally binding verdict - that's legal, according to the new Constitutional Tribunal. The handed down ruling concerns the case of former chief of Anti-Corruption Bureau, Mariusz Kamiński. The biggest oppositon party, Civic Platform says the decision has been taken by Law and Justice's "mock-up tribunal".

Almost one million zloty for only seventeen people - that's just in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. New facts have emerged in last year's bonus scandal. The Supreme Audit Office has released more information on money received by Law and Justice politicians. The opposition is demanding to know why the money was issued.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday that NATO's eastern flank needed to be strengthened in response to Russia's aggressive policy.

"Poland is a trash dump" - that's the cry that sounds after every waste dump fire. More and more of that waste is being imported every year - ainly from Germany, but also from faraway countries such as Australia and Nigeria. Here are the details.

Business news with Mateusz Walczak. The number of Polish millionaires is growing fast, even though it is still far behind Germany or the UK. Also, one out of three Poles expects a pay raise within the next year.

According to officials, the search for the five-metre-long python south of Warsaw has been called off. It may be restarted when the weather improves.

Two Hungarian tourists attempted to remove a brick from the crematorium of the German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, located in southern Poland. They were arrested by the police and charged. They confessed and did not contest the punishment.

The week-long nurses' strike in a Lublin hospital is over. The protesters have managed to reach a preliminary agreement with the management. The protest, however, still continues.

Members of the anti-vaccination "Stop NOP" group have submitted a petition to the Sejm with a civic project for a bill. They declare that it's been signed by over 120.000 citizens. For years, they've been fighting to stop vaccinations from being compulsory. Now they are supported in their initiative by three representatives of the Kukiz '15 movement.

The protest of Polish uniformed services has stepped up. The police have been joined by prison guards, border guards, firefighters and customs and tax officers. They are all demanding pay raises and an improvement in their working conditions.

There were whistles and shouts during the unveiling of the Lech Kaczyński memorial. And even the Prime Minister of Poland took part in the ceremony in Kraśnik in the Lubelskie Voivodeship. His speech was interrupted by farmers who were demanding fair wholesale prices for their crops.

Donald Tusk will testify before the parliamentary Amber Gold investigative committee. The head of the committee, Małgorzata Wasserman from Law and Justice announced the decision to summon the former Prime Minister was made unanimously. But the MP's from Civic Platform weren't present in the room during the vote and that caused mutual accusations that leaked to the media. The committee wants to determine, whether or not, and to what extent, the state officials were aware of what was happening in Amber Gold.