I'm a little miffed that my reply earlier only seems to appear on
google so this is coming from there. We eventually found our local
beekeeper through someone we knew. Surfing using the obvious criteria
only got us something to do with MGB cars. Both the local gov website
claim to have knowledge but are not available at the weekend, and the
police (who are supposed to keep a directory of such people) didn't
comprehend what we were asking and suggested the council pest site (not
open at the weekend). The site to look at is www.bbka.org.uk. They
are absolutely brilliant and the chap who came and collected our swarm
told us where they were going, invited us to see them when we wanted
and if we wanted our own hive to help us establish it.