I've just been to the CAA presentation at Shoreham this evening.
Nothing new there.
If you get your IMCR done before July 2012, it's yours "for ever". It will be added to a license as an IR (restricted). Being limited to Annex 2 aircraft (most of which can't fly IFR) it is a bit useless but the CAA said they are working on sorting this out with EASA...
The CAA seems to have produced a huge array of licenses and other papers in order to keep people flying Annex 2 stuff, in the face of the onslaught from EASA. They have reinstated the old CAA CPLs and ATPLs also, for that purpose.