Data recovery for 12 inch Powerbook

Hi everyone. My brother borrowed my beloved powerbook and after he inserted a clear plastic cd, the kind that protects the bottom cd of a set of blank cds (I've still no idea why he wanted to do that) it crashed and ended up in a grey screen load up limbo. It wouldn't boot or let me eject the cd and after trying various forum suggestions to remove the disc I submitted it to my local mac shop who charged me to remove the disc. However it still won't boot up. The shop wanted my permission to format the PB but I want to recover my data!
My question is: can anyone recommend someone in the UK who for a reasonable price could recover my data for me as my PB still won't boot up and probably needs reformatting!!!
Thanks for your help and time
Aleks
12" Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I did a Google search and entered some keywords from your problem and this is the best I could come up with.
(You'll be surprised what you can find on Google).
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-39185.html
Your problems seem to be mirrored by the user at the very end of the posting.
And another one:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=310227

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