Result of EGM

Screen PLC
21 February 2001

                          SCREEN Plc: Result of EGM

                 97% Shareholder Approval for all Resolutions


Screen Plc, ('Screen' or the 'Company'), the provider of advanced security
communications and control systems, announces the successful outcome of the
Extraordinary General Meeting held today, 21 February 2001, at which it
received overwhelming support for its proposals to shareholders with more than
97 per cent of the votes cast by shareholders supporting each of the seven
resolutions contained in the Circular dated 25 January 2001 and sent to
shareholders.


Mr Owen Williams, Chairman of Screen plc, said at the meeting that the £5
million Placing and Open Offer had been oversubscribed, with several new
institutional investors becoming new and welcome shareholders in the Company.
The ordinary shares of 0.1p each the subject of the Placing and Open Offer
have been issued and allotted subject to admission to trading on AIM.
30,176,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each subscribed for by investors seeking
relief under VCT or EIS legislation are expected to be admitted to trading on
AIM at 8 am on 22 February 2001. The remaining 17,443,046 ordinary shares of
0.1p each are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM at 8 am on 23 February
2001. Following today's approval of the resolution to consolidate the ordinary
shares of 0.1p shares into 1p shares, it is expected that a total of
42,636,856 consolidated ordinary shares of 1p each will be admitted to trading
on 26 February 2001.

Commenting at the EGM, Mr Williams told shareholders that the recent
acquisition of the Civil Systems Division of BAe Systems Plc, for a cash
consideration of £850,000 'had been successfully completed and re-branded as '
Petards Civil Systems', and was already contributing positively to the
development of a satisfactory order flow.'

21 February 2001



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