The Mini is sure not making life easy for me, but it is my own fault for leaving it alone for too long....
Got it to turn over a few weeks back, but the little A-Series - all 1330cc of it - needs a surprising load of battery grunt to get it to turn over, and even brand-spanking new the relatively little battery in the Sube just doesn't deliver. So I lashed out & grabbed a decent second-hand battery from a wrecker, which packs a lot more grunt, so now the engine turns over much more reasonably. Took a bit of dicking around, with pulling out engine block plugs & injecting oil into various holes to prime the oil pump, but I now have oil pressure too. That's the good bit.....
Fuel pump seems to have a great dislike for pumping fuel (yes, there is some in the tanks - pretend Cooper S, it has twin tanks), and the sparky bits aren't too keen on sparking. There's some spark visible when the plugs are pulled out of the head, but weak and intermittent. So that could be coil, leads, dizzy, plugs, any combination of them, plus a fuel pump on the shopping list.....