Found the fault, what throw me was, when I purchased the car it had just been mot , looking at the light all appeared to be working, tail lights indicators brake and reversing.

New to minis, I was driving along at night and behind another and I thought their tail light was brighter than mine, next day I looked and found tails have two bulbs on just one, further investigating found both top bulbs had poor connections and plastic started to melt, think this is a common fault.

So no dash lights, next thing is the glow plugs and find out why the start stop is not working, could be related

Thanks for your help

Jim G