Cheers for the heads up mate, I picked up a xbox 360 premium package from the leicester oadby store with an extra controller and gears of war.
Intredtingly the extra controller appears to be in a bundle box and had forza motorsport 2 in the box with it ! So I ended up with 2 games in the bundle !
They definitely seem like old stock I havent opened the console packaging to check yet, but from the lot number it appears to be a 2006 console, with no hdmi and a toshiba-samsung drive, no chance of it being a falcon chip either.
But with an extra controller and 2 games at 180 quid bargain, added bonus of no Hitachi 79 or liteon drive to worry about..