ALEXANDER & SAMWAYS RETIREMENT SCHEME

Pursuant to section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925, notice is given that all the Creditors, Members and others having any claim against or to be beneficially interested in the assets of the Schemes, are required to send particulars in writing to Leadenhall Independent Trustee Services Limited, East Wing, 1st floor, Lloyds Chambers, 1 Portsoken Street, London E1 8LN, on or before 18 February 2003. After this date, the Trustees will proceed to distribute the remaining assets of the Scheme among the persons entitled to them, and will have regard only to the claims of which they then have notice. The Trustee shall not be liable to any person of whose claims or demands they then have not had notice.