Annual General Meeting

The Company makes constructive use of the Annual General Meeting to communicate with private investors. The Company's Interim Management Statement was released to the Stock Exchange the day before the 2008 AGM, and the IMS can be found by clicking here. In addition, the Chief Executive presents a review of the Company's performance at the AGM, and a copy of the presentation may be viewed here.

Details of the resolutions proposed at the 2008 AGM may be viewed here.

All resolutions put to shareholders at the 2008 AGM were passed on a show of hands. Resolution 12 was withdrawn and not put to the Meeting.

Details of the proxy voting received by the Company for the 2008 AGM are set out in the table below.

Resolution	For & Discretion (votes)	Against (votes)	Abstentions (votes)	Total (votes)
1. To receive Report & Accounts	223,185,911	5,438,921	0	228,624,832

2. To approve Remuneration Report	228,548,177	69,735	6,920	228,624,832

3. To declare a Final Dividend	228,606,832	18,000	0	228,624,832

4. To re-elect Mark Rollins	228,586,232	28,600	10,000	228,624,832

5. To re-elect Mike Sheppard	228,584,007	40,825	0	228,624,832

6. To elect David Best	228,374,408	239,224	11,200	228,624,832

7. To re-elect Deloitte & Touche LLP	228,358,761	265,171	900	228,624,832

8. To renew the s.80 Authority	218,313,929	10,300,003	10,900	228,624,832

9. To renew the disapplication of s.89	218,281,566	10,330,593	12,673	228,624,832

10. To renew share buy back authority	228,570,875	50,157	3,800	228,624,832

11. To adopt New Articles of Association	227,887,763	234,577	502,492	228,624,832

The total number of proxy votes received for the 2008 AGM represented approximately 57.79% (2007 - 68.1% ) of the issued share capital of the Company.