People have gotten very good result with dry yeast, if you have more experience you could move on to liquid yeast and there are large range of English/ Scottish and Irish ones available
You could do a lot worse than using S-04 or Nottingham. S-04 is good as a general purpose ale yeast but if you want a drier beer go with the Nottingham.
Both are dry yeasts and neither need to be re-hydrated for superb results.