RNS Number:1381U
Minerva PLC
12 January 2004

To RNS

Letter to Minerva PLC dated 7 January 2004


SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985
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We refer to the letter dated 23 October 2002, disclosing a Notifiable Interest
of Zurich Financial Services and its Group in the shares of your Company.

In accordance with the provisions of the above Section and on behalf of the 
above, we would inform you that it has ceased to have a notifiable interest over
shares in your Company.

From Threadneedle Asset Management Limited


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