Directorate Change

Dewhurst PLC
5 December 2002

Letter to:  RNS

We wish to inform you that at a meeting of the Board of Directors Mr K F C
Bossard, a non-executive director of Dewhurst plc, announced that he would be
retiring from the Board with effect from the conclusion of the Annual General
Meeting scheduled to take place on Monday, 3rd February 2003.

Letter from:  Dewhurst plc

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