Thank you for all of the replies. Of all of those flying schools reccommended i compiled a list of those within travelling distance and have visited them over the course of the past few days.
Now that i have decided to embark upon the PPL course can anyone reccommend what the best flying training manuals are to study for the theoretical exams? I've looked at the Oxford PPL books which are fairly expensive and seem to contain twice as much information than others. I've also been looking at the Jeremy Pratt books but noticed that the last edition to these books was back in 2003.