Cracked it!
I took the window operating switch panel from the driver's door, identified the wire which supplied power to the unit and connected it to the 12V supply to the door light. The door light (the one in the panel below door handle) always comes on when the door is open. If the door is open, security is no longer a problem, so why not then be able to operate the windows? (this was BMW's thinking years ago).
The wire to the door light is a bit thin - but as long as you operate the windows one at a time, hopefully it won't become overloaded.
Remove the window operating panel from the door panel - it should be easy to lever it out (no screws). In my case the wire supplying power is the plain blue one - a bit thicker then the rest - at the back of the plug. Remove the door light - two screws. The wires to the light are red (12V) and red-black trace(earth). If you work carefully you can feed a wire from one hole to the next without even removing the door panel. But it is quite easy to pop the studs on the bottom of the panel and feed through the wire. Two squish connectors and 450mm of wire later and you're in business.
Hope this is useful to others.
Cheers - Phil