Result of AGM

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 8 May 2002, all resolutions were duly passed. The resolutions passed under Special Business were as follows: - The Directors' authority to allot a limited number of currently unissued ordinary shares for cash, without first offering such shares to existing ordinary shareholders pro-rata to their existing holdings, has been renewed. - The Company's authority to purchase up to 14.93% of its own shares in issue on 22 February 2002 for cancellation has been renewed. The maximum number of shares to be purchased is 9,400,000 ordinary shares.
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