RNS Number:5813P
ISIS Asset Management PLC
9 September 2003

                                                      FORM SAR 5


                                       Date of disclosure.....9TH SEPTEMBER 2003

             DISCLOSURE UNDER NOTE 3 OF RULE 5 OF THE RULES GOVERNING
                   SUBSTANTIAL ACQUISITIONS OF SHARES ("SARs")

                 
Date of dealing......8TH SEPTEMBER 2003........................................

Purchase in..........ACTIVE CAPITAL TRUST......................(name of company)


(1) Class of voting shares    Number of shares/rights   If rights over shares
    (eg ordinary shares)      over shares sold          sold, as opposed
                                                        to the shares
                                                        themselves, specify
                                                        nature of rights

    ORDINARY SHARES 1P..      282,971.........shares    .....................
                              ................rights


(2) Resultant total holding   Resultant total holding   Total percentage
    of voting shares (and %   of rights over shares
    of total voting shares    (and % of total voting
    in issue)                 shares in issue)

    15,849,314 ....(     %)   ...............(    %)    .............( 19.5 %)


(3) Party making disclosure......ISIS ASSET MANAGEMENT......................  

(4)  (a)  Name of person selling shares or rights over shares ..............
          and, if different, beneficial owner............................... 

     (b)  Names of any other persons acting by
          agreement or understanding (see SAR 5)............................


Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above...................

(Also print name of signatory)....DOUGLAS STEWART...........................

Telephone and extension number.....LYNN EDGAR     0131 465 1081.............


For full details of the SARs disclosure requirements, see Rules 3 and 5 of the
SARs.  If in doubt, contact the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, 
Tel. No: 020 7382 9026.


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