THOMAS BROTHERS (MURTON) LIMITED

Notice is hereby given that a First Interim Dividend of 20p in the pound has been paid to the non-preferential Creditors. The Final Dividend should be about 10p in the pound. The notice set out below applies only to those Creditors who have not yet lodged formal claims and received from me a written acknowledgement of claim. Notice is hereby given that the Creditors of the above-named Company, which is being voluntarily wound up, are required, on or before 31 August 2001, to send in their full names, their addresses and descriptions, full particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their Solicitors (if any), to the undersigned, Ian William Kings, of Tenon Jennings Johnson, 19 Borough Road, Sunderland SR1 1LA, the Joint Liquidator of the said Company in defult thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of the distribution which will be made within the next 4 months after the date specified above. I W Kings, Joint Liquidator 13 July 2001.