Warsaw  - A military place crash in northern Poland was linked to budget cuts that forced pilots to cut back on flight time, reported the daily Rzeczpospolita on Wednesday.

Four people died in northern Poland near Gdansk Tuesday when a military transporter crashed upon landing during a training flight. The Bryza transport plane went up in flames as it crash-landed, local media reported.

Two weeks earlier, Rzeczpospolita reported, pilots had told the daily they would only fly for 20 minutes once a week because of budget cutbacks.

Warsaw - Four people die

Warsaw - Polish football is considering using referees from Germany and the Czech Republic amid a corruption investigation which is leading to a shortage of match officials, it was reported Friday.

Sports Minister Miroslaw Drzewiecki said referees from the two neighbouring countries could be considered to help out in the Ekstraklasa, the country's top league, the Polish press agency PAP reported.

Warsaw - Poland's Constitutional Tribunal was to settle a spat Friday on who represents the country at European Union summits, after a jostle for power among Polish leaders that forced one in October to charter his own plane.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk asked the tribunal to resolve the conflict that's part of a larger, years-long power struggle between the two political rivals.

The tribunal will decide if President Lech Kaczynski can decide for himself to take part in EU summits, or if the prime minister has the final word.

Warsaw - Hundreds of miners, shipyard workers and medical rescuers marched in the Polish capital Thursday against what they charged were the government's "anti-labour politics."

Metalworkers and trade unionists were also in the crowd that demonstrated at the economy and health ministries.