Issue of options

Starvest PLC
15 February 2005


RNS announcement Tuesday 15 February 2005

                                  STARVEST plc

On 14 February 2005 the Board awarded options over the Company's Ordinary Shares
at an exercise price of £0.15 per share for a period of five years as follows:

   • To Ronald Bruce Rowan (Director) - 1,750,000 options
   • To John Watkins (Director) - 850,000 options
   • To Anthony Charles Raby Scutt (Director) - 350,000 options.

Enquiries to Bruce Rowan, Chairman, telephone [phone] or to
[e-mail]

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