Lots of good ideas, thank you, and some "heads up" to the odd bad one. I understand that the "student" approach has to go through the university involved, in this case the RVC in London. Nicola says that she'll look into that when she goes back home. Duty-free isn't likely to be a goer because she doesn't get the time to travel outside the EU (final year is pretty hectic) and I imagine that one would be expected to pay duty on the import. In spite of a lonely warning from mixture, I expect that much time will be spent trawling eBay. I don't think that she'll suspend her prejudice against a PC.