ALMA REALISATIONS LIMITED

(formerly Eversheds Limited)

EVERSHEDS’ STAFF BENEFITS TRUST (THE SCHEME)

I, David Passmore Herbert being the Chairman of the Trustees and a Director of Eggar Trustees Limited, the Independent Trustee, of the Scheme require any person interested in or claiming to be entitled to a benefit from the Scheme, to send to the Administrators, at the address given below, within a period of two months from the date of this notice, details of such interest or claim. It is the Trustees intention to wind up the Scheme upon such terms as they shall decide upon in accordance with the Trust Deed, Rules and other appropriate documents for the benefit of those Members, pensioners and deferred pensioners which have been made known to them at the expiration of the said two month period. Any persons who have received Announcements to Members or correspondence from the Administrators within the last 12 months need not reply to this notice. Administrator: Mrs Louise Pickering, Wolanski & Co, New Garden House, 78 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8LD. D P Herbert, Chairman and for the Independent Trustee 20 August 2001.