Thanks for the welcome Jocko
Well, tyres fitted and tracking fiddled with this morning. It was toed out about 2 degrees, should be zero according to Mr Haynes, a manual was helpfully included with the car.
It's certainly improved the feeling of the steering a great deal, it's lighter, not wandering, and the stickiness about the centre has all but gone. Still not keen to centre though, this seems to be affected by road camber - fine on the crown of the road, the dead patch on the steering moves to the left or right of straight ahead, depending which camber you are on, left or right. Wierd. To be honest, the whole geometry settings on the front read a bit wierd.
We'll see how it goes, perhaps some material here for a more detailed contribution once I find my way around the car. I'm very hands on, and I know that these forums can be invaluable, so I hope I might be able to help out some other forum members along the way.
The Jazz I bought seems mechanically good, FSH and a box file of old MOTs & receipts... the bodywork is a bit rough though, I think Mr Magoo has had it for the last 6 years. Fortunately, a friend of mine is a semi-retired old fashioned panel beater & sprayer, so the bodge repairs to the bodywork will be fixed in due course.