RNS Number:4770O
Heywood Williams Group PLC
8 August 2003

                           HEYWOOD WILLIAMS GROUP PLC 

Heywood Williams Group PLC ("the Company") advises that it received two notices
on 7 August 2003 from J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd.; one on behalf of J.P. Morgan
Chase & Co and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, advising that it no longer
has a notifiable material interest in the share capital of the Company, and the
other on behalf of Fleming Mercantile Investment Trust plc advising that,
following the sale of 1,313,513 ordinary shares, its beneficial interest in the
Company is now 6,196,382 ordinary shares representing 7.90% of the Company's
issued ordinary share capital. 


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