Hiya, its something I really wanted to do but realisticly decided I couldn't do it and trained to be a m/w instead.
You say there is a course near you but you need to find out which hospitals you will be expected to rotate between. The students at Derby for instance rotate between Derby, Nottingham, Chesterfield, Lincoln and Boston and Mansfield. You could be at any of those hospitals for long periods.
Then when you qualify you have to rank EVERY health authority in the UK in order of preference for where you want a job. So you could end up with a job in Cornwall or Scotland. Then again when you get that job you will have to rotate between a number of hospitals for maybe periods of 6 months. From what I gather talking to junior doctors this goes on for 10 years until you get a consultant's post.
But then if you live in an area where all the hospitals are fairly close it may be different. There is a med students/junior doctors forum on the internet which if you google you should find. Sorry f I've been neg - it may work a lot better for you than it would have done me. My dh works away quite a bit so there was no way I could do it - if he had a 9-5 job and was supportive maybe I'd have gone for it. Good luck.