THE LAW DEBENTURE PENSION TRUST CORPORATION PLC

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND BENEFICIARIES UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925

HENLYS GROUP PLC PENSION SCHEME (“THE SCHEME”)

Pursuant to section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925 and any other relevant power, notice is given that any Member, other Beneficiary, Creditor or anyone else having any claim against, or claiming to be beneficially interested in, the assets of the Henlys Group plc Pension Scheme (which is governed by a definitive Trust Deed dated 16 January 1969 (as subsequently amended) is required to send to the Trustees of the Scheme at the address given below, on or before 21 September 2005, written particulars of the claim, after which date the Trustees will proceed to distribute the assets of the Scheme among the persons entitled to them having regard only to the claims of which they then have notice, and in respect of the assets of the Scheme so used will not be liable to anyone of whose claim they then have had no notice. Members of the Scheme and other Beneficiaries with whom the Trustees or the Scheme’s administrators are already in contact need not respond to this notice since their interests have already been noted. The Trustee of the Henlys Group plc Pension Scheme c/o Helen Hillman, Higham Group plc, Ludgate House, 2nd Floor, 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UF.