Monty Python's John Cleese stars in Polish commercials for BZWBK bank and trading with Iran - this and more in this week's Polish market podcast with Rafal Kiepuszewski. >>

If you have a few hours to spare while visiting the historic Polish city of Krakow, why not experience a model Stalinist town of Nowa Huta in its suburbs, which enterprising locals want to turn into a living museum of communist architecture.  >>

The influx of Polish workers into the UK has pushed up accommodation rental prices. >>

Agencies providing Polish nurses and house help to ageing Israelis have emerged as a new business as the one-time Jewish émigrés from Poland are in their eighties and increasingly in need of being looked after.  >>

If Krakow and Warsaw are your Polish holiday destinations this summer, why not take the time to visit the medieval city of Torun in the north, which many describe as Poland’s best kept secret. Its impressive gothic architecture may have been neglected under communism, but now local authorities in partnership with local business are turning old run-down houses into profitable businesses like hotels. One of them is a refurbished medieval granary. >>

We turn the spotlight on the printed version of Polish Market, and more particularly, on the current special edition brought out ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in the mid-western city of Poznań. >>

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The historic Wieliczka spa in southern Poland on the outskirts of Krakow may have once contributed to the city's greatness, as the rich salt deposits owned by the kings of Poland paid for the construction of Krakow landmarks. Wieliczka itself is a major attraction, with its amazing underground churches and vast decorated chambers carved out in salt down the centuries. But the salt mine was facing a problem: mining was destroying the historic landmarks. Now the mine has reinvented itself as not just a world-famous museum, but also a thriving underground spa, where asthma sufferers are treated. >>