Partnership Deal with Advance Technology (UK) Plc

Screen PLC
4 January 2000



Screen Plc ('the Company')

The Company issued a press release today an extract from which is set out
below:

Screen Plc, the electronic security and controls specialist, is pleased to
announce a partnership deal with Advance Technology (UK) Plc (winner of the
1996 Information Technology Europe Award) and the Company's subsidiary,
Petards Datax Limited ('Datax').

The partnership will be focused on providing long range, reliable, unregulated
radio communications.  Datax is using the technology to enhance its range of
mobile data systems to exploit the emerging hand-held markets using WAP
(Wireless Application Protocol) technology.  The hand-held products are being
designed to work with Datax's existing mobile data products which have been
adopted by 22 of the UK's Police Forces.