Hi All,
Just to update you all. I did lots of enquiring and a couple of ATO's told me that I would need to retake my exams if I wanted to revalidate my licence. Luckily I found out I was misled and this is NOT the case.
I have now done a course of instruction at Conington (8 or so hours) which covers all aspects of the original training to get me ready for a skills test which is planned fore Monday (fingers crossed!). - the examiner informs me that the test will be about an hour with a very short nav segment (no diversion or matz pen) so hopefully straitforward.
Hopefully after monday I will have a shiney new EASA PPL so that I can go visit Wellsborne for some TMG training!