THE WARD GROUP PLC

In order to formally establish the claims of Creditors against the Company notice is hereby given that the Creditors of the Company are required on or before 31st January 1999 to send in writing their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their Solicitors (if any), to Gerald Ian Rankin and David James Waterhouse, of Cork Gully, Benson House, 33 Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4JP, the Joint Liquidators of the said Company. If so required by notice is writing from the said Joint Liquidators, such Creditors, either personally or by their Solicitors shall attend at such time and place as shall be specified by the Joint Liquidators to prove their debts and claims. In default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved. A proof of debt is a document stating the amount of the Creditor’s claim and (subject to Rule 4.76 of the Insolvency Rules 1986) may be in any form. G. I. Rankin and D. J. Waterhouse, Joint Liquidators 22nd December 1998.