Hey Simon,
I'm at Stapleford Flight Centre in Essex. The school offers an excellent ab-initio modular course which can be up to half the price (quoting on minimum time) of the integrated courses. You come out the other end in the same time (obviously depending on your ability) and with the very same qualificaton. Their certainly isn't any age discrimination as I personally know one person who has just completed the 1st part of the course who is 2 years old than yourself. And he is, by all accounts, a very decent pilot