After much deliberation, and considering my engine has 260,000 miles on it, I couldn't justify repairing the head and putting it back on such a high mileage engine. I also couldn't find a garage locally that wanted to deal with it anyways.
What I did find was a good low mileage complete enginge, and a garage willing swap it in for me at a reasonable rate, so that's the route I'm going to take. Bit of a gamble with the second-hand enginge, but not any more than the gamble of continuing with the high mileage one. Fingers crossed I wont regret it, but at any rate, just wanted to let you know that I'm not going down the head removal/repair route. Best of luck to you!
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