I knew it was a well known issue on Corsas, but my Astra's clutch is smooth. As I understand it the solution is to put up with it or fit a new clutch. My Astra has a cable clutch, the Corsa's is hydraulic. I always meant to try bleeding the Corsa clutch but never got round to it, you just reminded me. I wonder if that might make any difference, I doubt it.

You might be lucky and get away with dogdy gear linkages as was my experience with an Astra H but in the end the clutch is probably on it way out - 2 years later and 20k miles it cost me £350 to supply and fit exchange clutch assembly from main Vx dealer.