Reduction of Capital

WEST REGISTER (PUBLIC HOUSES) LIMITED

(Registered Number SC202689)

Notice is hereby given that on 22 December 2006 an order was pronounced in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, confirming the reduction of £180,000,000 in nominal value of the share capital of West Register (Public Houses) Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Acts and with its registered office at 24/25 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 1AF (the “Company”) in terms of a written resolution of the Company dated 20 November 2006. A certified copy of that order was registered by the Registrar of Companies in Scotland on 22 December 2006.

Burness LLP

50 Lothian Road, Festival Square, Edinburgh EH3 9WJ.

Solicitors to the Company.