Thanks a lot Dave for the instant reply. Much appreciated.
I've looked around the registrars/dropcatchers I've already got accounts with, as it'll save me the hassle of opening up new accounts, and both 123-Reg and SnapNames have dropcatching services for the .uk TLD, so I have applied through both of those. How do you reckon they rate (in terms of success in grabbing domains) compared to the dropcatching services that specialise in UK domain names?