Directors Share Interests

Rowe Evans Investments PLC
26 September 2000


Mr P A Fletcher has today advised that 25,000 shares of the Company which are
currently classified in his share interests as 'beneficial' should now be
classified as 'non-beneficial. His present interest in the issued capital of
the Company is as follows:-

                Beneficial          Non-beneficial        Share options

                 441,199               50,000                  Nil


By order of the board
M.P.Evans (UK) Limited
Secretaries