RNS Number:1673P
Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd
29 August 2003


                                                                    FORM 8.1/8.3

                         Date of disclosure......29/08/03..................


DISCLOSURE UNDER RULES 8.1(a), 8.1(b)(I) AND 8.3 OF THE CITY CODE ON TAKEOVERS
AND MERGERS

**The following replaced the Rule 8 - Nestor Healthcare announcement released on
the 28th August at 9:33 under RNS Number 1113P.

The amount bought should be 639,400 and not 661,400 as previously stated. The
resultant total should be 1,717,800 and not 1,739,800 as previously stated.

All other details remain unchanged, the full amended test appears below.



Date of dealing 27/08/03...................................................

Dealing in...Nestor

(1) Class of securities (e.g. ordinary shares) ............ORD..................

(2)     Amount bought           Amount sold           Price per unit

             639,400                                     # 3.35

(3)     Resultant total of the same class owned or controlled

(and percentage of class...1,717,800 (1.96 %)

 4. Party making disclosure...THREADNEEDLE ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD

 5. EITHER (a) Name of purchaser/vendor (Note 1).................................
    .......................................

    OR (b) If dealing for discretionary client(s), name of fund management
    organisations

     THREADNEEDLE ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD

 6. Reason for disclosure (Note 2)

          (a)      Associate of (i) offeror (Note 3)  NO                                   
                               (ii) offeree company   NO

               Specify which category or categories of associate (1-8 overleaf)


               If Category (8), explain.......................................


        (b)     Rule 8.3 (i.e. disclosure because of ownership or
                control of 1% or more of the class of relevant securities dealt
                in)                                             YES 


Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (4) above .....................


(Also print name of signatory) Martyn Horn

Telephone and extension number ......01793 363011...............................
 

For full details of disclosure requirements, see Rule 8 of the Code. If in
doubt, contact the Panel on Take-overs and Mergers. Tel No: 020 7382 9026.





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