Dear Mrs K,
I will be more than happy if I could be of any help to you.It appears from your posts that you are currently based at UK.If thats the case then I am sorry to say ,I have no idea about the notarization process in UK, as I m based at KSA and got my documents notarized from my home country ,from where they were issued,except my UK degree which I got attested from British Council ,which cost me 200 SAR (almost 15GBP),I also have got PCC from UK, which cost me 35GBP.
In my view if you are UK national and based at UK ,the severity of checking of documents might not be as strict for you as it is for non UK nationals.Also if all of your documents are from UK ,then it ll be easy for CIC to confirm about their authenticity from the concerned depts.
I agree with you man!!
May be some UK applicants could contribute more .
Regards