Speaking at a Moscow news conference, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said the first meeting between U.S.President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart,Dmitri Medvedev, set the basis for practical cooperation between the two countries.

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Knowledge about basic maintenance of a car will now be a feature of the practical test set by the Driving Standards Agency.

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The Help Scheme's was set up to give practical help and support to people who might otherwise be left behind at switchover.

BBC: Switchover lessons to be learned

We need to play a full part by the force of our ideas, and to set them in the context of practical European unity.

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