The Kodaks are fine as long as you like their dumbed down UI and feature sets (personally the drive me mad). I will admit to a bias against Sony digital cameras, simply because they lock you into their memory sticks and then charge you twice as much as CF, XD etc

If we assume for the moment that you are going to spend up to £300, then the you can include a few Fujis, Nikons, Olympus etc:

http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/canon-a70-digital-camera-deals.htm
http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/nikon-coolpix-4300-digital-camera-deals.htm
http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/fuji-finepix-s304-digital-camera-deals.htm
http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/olympus-c50-zoom-digital-camera-deals.htm

If you forced me to pick one of these, I would probably go for the Canon A70. There is a review of if here