Result of AGM

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 13 December 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 6,300,000 of its own shares for
    cancellation has been renewed. This represents approximately 14.8% of the
    number of ordinary shares in issue on 25 October 2002.