Will your learners be able to do a "Eine Umdrehung in der Straße?" Let's hope so, as from later this month driving examiners from all European Union countries will be given the right to conduct tests in the UK.

A Driving Standards Agency (DSA) spokesperson said today that under the European Human Rights act, the DSA are powerless to stop multilingual tests taking place:

"It won't be that bad. The E.U. only has 27 members. Some of those countries even speak the same language. All that UK learners will have to do is learn about 35 key phrases in around 23 languages. What could be simpler?"

A new DSA publication, "Take your driving test in Latvian, and 22 other languages" is due out tomorrow, priced at a very reasonable £98.49.

"Tirer en haut dans un lieu sûr et commode sur la gauche, s'il vous plaît," as they say in France!