UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT
                       Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of
                       The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) November 12, 2004

                           TITANIUM METALS CORPORATION
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 Delaware                            0-28538                 13-5630895
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(State or other jurisdiction        (Commission             (IRS Employer
 of incorporation)                   File Number)            Identification No.)

 1999 Broadway, Ste. 4300, Denver, Colorado                             80202
 (Address of principal executive offices)                           (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code       (303) 296-5600
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         (Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Section 1 - Registrant's Business and Operations

Item 1.01       Entry into Material Definitive Agreement.

     On November 12, 2004, TIMET UK Ltd. ("TIMET UK"), a wholly owned subsidiary
of Titanium Metals Corporation ("TIMET"), entered into three new leases with The
Prudential  Assurance  Company Limited  ("Prudential")  for TIMET UK's principal
facilities  located  in  Witton,   England.   The  two  leases  for  TIMET  UK's
manufacturing  facilities each have a term of 20 years,  and the lease for TIMET
UK's  office  space  has a term of 10  years.  TIMET UK pays  aggregate  rent of
approximately  (pound)752,580  per year for the three  leases,  which  amount is
subject to adjustment  every five years at a rate of 2.0% per annum,  compounded
annually.  The first rent payment  under the new leases is not due until October
2006.  The leases are  substantially  identical in form,  and a form of lease is
attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and is incorporated herein by this reference.

Item 1.02       Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.

     Contemporaneously with entering into the new leases described in Item 1.01,
TIMET UK and Prudential agreed to terminate the previously  effective leases for
the  same  facilities.  The  previously  effective  leases  permitted  TIMET  to
terminate  the  leases at the end of 2006 or 2016,  while the new  leases do not
contain a similar  termination  right.  Under the previously  effective  leases,
TIMET UK's  aggregate  rental rate was  approximately  (pound)663,224  per year,
which  amount was subject to  adjustment  every five years based upon changes in
the Retail  Prices  Index for all items  excluding  housing as  published  by HM
Government's  relevant statistics office, with the next adjustment scheduled for
February 2006. TIMET agreed to the new rental rate and lease terms under the new
leases in exchange for the abatement of rental  payments  until October 2006 and
the fixed rent escalation provision.

Section 9 - Financial Statements and Exhibits

Item 9.01       Financial Statements and Exhibits.

       (c)      Exhibits.

                Item No. Exhibit Index
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                10.1     Form  of  Lease  Agreement  dated  November  12,  2004,
                         between The Prudential  Assurance  Company  Limited and
                         TIMET UK Ltd.,  related to the premises  known as Timet
                         Number 2 Plant, The Hub Birmingham.






                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.



                                     TITANIUM METALS CORPORATION
                                     (Registrant)

                                     /s/ Matthew O'Leary
                                     Matthew O'Leary
                                     Corporate Attorney and Assistant Secretary



Date: November 17, 2004






                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit No.              Description

10.1                     Form  of  Lease  Agreement  dated  November  12,  2004,
                         between The Prudential  Assurance  Company  Limited and
                         TIMET UK Ltd.,  related to the premises  known as Timet
                         Number 2 Plant, The Hub Birmingham.





                     DATED                      2004





                     (1)        THE PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED




                     (2)        TIMET UK LIMITED










                                      LEASE

                                 - relating to -

                              the premises known as
                              Timet Number 2 Plant
                                     The Hub
                                   Birmingham









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TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                                                     Page No.

                                                                                               
1.       Definition and Interpretation.................................................................1

2.       The Grant of the Lease.......................................................................10

3.       Rents And Other Financial Provisions.........................................................10

4.       Insurance....................................................................................13

5.       Repair Maintenance And Decoration............................................................19

6.       Alterations The Planning Acts The CDM Regulations And Legislation Generally
         And Aerials Signs And Advertisements.........................................................23

7.       User.........................................................................................30

8.       Disposal of the Property.....................................................................32

9.       Miscellaneous Tenant's Covenants.............................................................36

10.      Miscellaneous Landlord's Covenants...........................................................40

11.      Miscellaneous Further Agreements and Declarations............................................41

12.      Notices......................................................................................44

13.      Exclusion of Security of Tenure..............................................................45

SCHEDULE 1............................................................................................46

Part One - The Property...............................................................................46

Part Two - Rights granted to the Tenant...............................................................47

Part Three - Rights Excepted and Reserved to the Landlord.............................................48

Part Four - The Title Encumbrances....................................................................50

SCHEDULE 2............................................................................................50

Services and Service Charge...........................................................................50

SCHEDULE 3............................................................................................58

Covenants and Agreements by a Surety of an Assignee...................................................58

SCHEDULE 4............................................................................................61

Covenants and agreements by a surety or sureties in respect of an underlease..........................61



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THIS LEASE is made the                 day of                              2004

BETWEEN:

(1)  THE PRUDENTIAL  ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED  (registered in England and Wales
     with number 0015454) whose registered  office is at 142 Holborn Bars London
     EC1N 2NH (hereinafter called "the Landlord") and

(2)  TIMET UK LIMITED (registered in England and Wales with number 530589) whose
     registered  office is at PO Box 704 Witton  Birmingham B6 7UR  (hereinafter
     called "the Tenant")

NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH as follows:

1.   Definition and Interpretation

1.1  In this Lease the following expressions shall have the following meanings:


  Authorised User:  means a purpose  of  purposes  within  Class B1  (except  as
                    hereinafter  mentioned)  Class  B2  and/or  Class  B8 of the
                    Schedule  to the Town and  Country  Planning  (Use  Classes)
                    Order 1987 but for the purposes of this  definition and this
                    Lease such Order  shall be deemed to exclude  paragraph  (a)
                    from the wording of Class B1 as contained in the Schedule to
                    such Order  together with  ancillary  offices and parking of
                    vehicles

Base Rate:          means  either  the base  rate  from time to time in force of
                    HSBC Bank plc (or of such  other  bank being a member of the
                    Committee of London  Clearing Banks as the Landlord may from
                    time to time  nominate)  or if at any time no such base rate
                    shall exist or be published  then such  alternative  rate at
                    such time  which the  Landlord  may  reasonably  specify  in
                    substitution for such base rate


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CDM Client:         has  the   meaning   designated   to  "Client"  by  the  CDM
                    Regulations

CDM Regulations:    means the Construction  (Design and Management)  Regulations
                    1994

Car Parking Spaces: means  25  car  parking   spaces  upon  the  Estate  as  are
                    designated  from time to time by the Landlord as which shall
                    be reasonably  convenient for use by the Tenant or occupiers
                    or users of the Property

Common Parts:       means those areas  facilities and other things which are not
                    leased or  intended to be leased by the  Landlord  and which
                    are  designed  or  allocated  by the  Landlord  for  the use
                    enjoyment  or benefit of  tenants  within the Estate  and/or
                    persons  using  or  visiting  the  Estate  (including  where
                    appropriate the Landlord) and/or estate management  purposes
                    (as varied from time to time by the Landlord)  including for
                    example  all access and estate  roads  entrances  pedestrian
                    ways  street  lighting  the Car  Parking  Spaces  and  other
                    vehicle parking  facilities  vehicle  circulation  areas any
                    Service Areas and other vehicle  loading and unloading areas
                    forecourts  yards  pathways  perimeter  walls  fences  gates
                    stores  street signs and names  Estate signs and  signboards
                    street furniture sculptures  decorations  management offices
                    and security  offices and gate houses and other common areas
                    and open spaces upon serving or enjoyed by the Estate or any
                    part or parts thereof

Conducting Media:   means  drains  channels  sewers flues  conduits  ducts pipes
                    wires cables  watercourse  gutters  culverts  soakaways  and
                    other similar  transmission  media and installations and all
                    ancillary  fixings

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                    louvres cowls covers and other  apparatus and  references to
                    Conducting Media being "in" or "on" include Conducting Media
                    in on under or through

Construction Work:  has the meaning designated to such term by the CDM
                    Regulations

Contractual Term:   means 20 years as from (and including) the Term Commencement
                    Date

Estate:             means that  property  which shall from time to time comprise
                    the estate of the Landlord known as The Hub Birmingham  (the
                    boundaries of which as at the Term Commencement Date are for
                    the  purposes  of   identification   only  shown  edged  red
                    (excluding  the land shown hatched green) on Plan A) and any
                    additional property which the Landlord may notify the Tenant
                    shall be included in "the Estate"

Estate Footpaths:   means such unadopted  pedestrian  footpaths or ways or parts
                    of such  pedestrian  footpaths  or ways as are now or at any
                    time  during  the Term may be upon or lead  into the  Estate
                    including any  alterations  or additions to such  pedestrian
                    footpaths or ways and which the Landlord  shall from time to
                    time make  available  and  designate  for use by the tenants
                    occupiers and users of the Estate and visitors to the Estate

Estate Roads:       means such unadopted roads or parts of such roads as are now
                    or at any time  during the Term may be upon or lead into the
                    Estate  including any alterations or additions to such roads
                    and  which  the  Landlord  shall  from  time  to  time  make
                    available and designate for use by the tenants occupiers and
                    users of the Estate and visitors to the Estate

                                       3


Group:              means a group of companies  within the meaning of Section 42
                    of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

Health and
Safety File:        has  the  meaning   designated  to  such  term  by  the  CDM
                    Regulations

Insured Risks:      fire lightning  explosion aircraft and articles dropped from
                    them riot civil  commotion  malicious  damage storm  tempest
                    flood  earthquake  bursting  or  overflowing  of water tanks
                    apparatus  and pipes  impact by any  vehicle  and such other
                    risks as the Landlord may reasonably  consider  necessary to
                    insure

Landlord's Fixtures
and Fittings:       has the meaning as defined in Part One of Schedule 1

Landlord's Group:   means the Group of which the Landlord is a member

Landlords Neighbouring
Property:           means any Neighbouring Property now or at any time hereafter
                    in the  ownership  of the  Landlord  or  any  member  of the
                    Landlord's Group

Landlord's Surveyor: means such suitably qualified person who shall be appointed
                    or  employed  by the  Landlord  from time to time during the
                    Term and such person may be but not necessarily  shall he in
                    the employ of or otherwise  connected with the Landlord

Last Year
of the Term:        means  the  period of  twelve  months  the last day of which
                    shall be the Lease Termination Date

Lease
Termination Date:   means the date of expiry of the Term  unless  for any reason
                    this Lease shall he  terminated  prior to the date of expiry
                    of the  Contractual  Term in which

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                    case  "Lease  Termination  Date"  shall  mean  such  date of
                    termination

Legislation:        means any statute or any order instrument or regulation made
                    under  any  statute  or any  notice  or  order  issued  by a
                    government  department  or  minister  or by a  local  public
                    regulatory or other authority (and in each such case whether
                    present or future)

Loss:               means in  relation to any person any  liability  incurred by
                    such  person any loss  injury or damages  suffered by it any
                    damage  awarded  against  it  any  claim  demand  action  or
                    proceeding  made or brought against it or any costs expenses
                    or  disbursements  incurred  by it (and  "Losses"  shall  be
                    construed accordingly)

Neighbouring
Property:           means any land or buildings  or parts of buildings  (whether
                    already or hereafter to he erected) adjoining or near to the
                    Property

Plan A:            means the plan annexed to this deed marked "Plan A"

 Plan B:           means the plan annexed to this deed marked "Plan B"

Planning Acts:      means the Town and Country  Planning  Act 1990 the  Planning
                    (Listed  Buildings  and  Conservation  Areas)  Act  1990 the
                    Planning  (Hazardous   Substances)  Act  1990  the  Planning
                    (Consequential   Provisions)   Act  1990  the  Planning  and
                    Compensation  Act 1991 and any other Act of  Parliament of a
                    similar nature in force from time to time

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The Property:       means the property described in Part One of Schedule 1

Quarter:            means any period  commencing  upon (and including) a Quarter
                    Day and expiring upon (and  including)  the day  immediately
                    before the next Quarter Day

Quarter Days:       means 25 March 24 June 29 September  and 25 December in each
                    year and "Quarter Day" shall be construed accordingly

the Rent:           means   the   yearly   rent   which   shall   initially   be
                    (pound)386,461  (Three  hundred and eighty six thousand four
                    hundred  and  sixty one  pounds)  per  annum  exclusive  and
                    thereafter:

                    from  and  including  the  fifth  anniversary  of  the  Term
                    Commencement  Date  (pound)426,684  (Four hundred and twenty
                    six  thousand  six hundred and eighty four pounds) per annum
                    exclusive;

                    from  and  including  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the  Term
                    Commencement Date  (pound)471,093  (Four hundred and seventy
                    one thousand and ninety three  pounds) per annum  exclusive;
                    and

                    from and  including the  fifteenth  anniversary  of the Term
                    Commencement  Date  (pound)520,124  (Five hundred and twenty
                    thousand  one  hundred  and twenty  four  pounds)  per annum
                    exclusive

Rent
Commencement Date:  means 12 October 2006

Service Areas:      means  that area or those  areas  upon the  Estate  (if any)
                    designated from time to time during the Term by the Landlord
                    as "the Service Areas"
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Service Charge:     has the meaning given to it by Schedule 2

Service Charge
Commencement
Date:               means the date of this Lease

Schedule
of Condition:       means a schedule of condition in two volumes  totalling  101
                    pages dated  November  1995  (including  571  representative
                    photographs)  prepared by  Chesterton  for  Holford  Estates
                    Limited  which the parties  consider to be a  representative
                    statement  of the  state  of  repair  and  condition  of the
                    Property as at that date

Term:               means the Contractual Term

Term Commencement
Date:               means 29 September 2004

Title Encumbrances: means all rights  easements  quasi-casements  privileges and
                    other matters  affecting the Property  including (but not by
                    way of  limitation)  so far as they affect the  Property and
                    are   subsisting   or  capable  of  taking   effect  or  are
                    exercisable  or  capable  of being  enforced  those  matters
                    mentioned or referred to in Part Four of Schedule 1

Undertenant:        means any  undertenant  deriving  title under the Tenant (or
                    its  predecessors in title) whether  immediate or derivative
                    and such expression shall include any licensee of the Tenant
                    (or its  predecessors  in title) or of any such  undertenant
                    and where the context so admits  also any  servant  agent or
                    invitee  of  any  such  undertenant  or  licensee  (and  the
                    expression "Undertenants" shall be construed accordingly)

Uninsured Risk:     an  Insured  Risk  against  which  insurance  ceases  to  be
                    obtainable  on  normal   commercial   terms  in  the

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                    London insurance market at rates generally  available in the
                    London insurance market for a property of this type size and
                    location



Value Added Tax:    means  Value  Added  Tax  and any tax  duty or  charge  of a
                    similar nature that may he substituted  for it or charged in
                    addition to it

1.2       In and for the purpose of this Lease:

          (a)  any reference to "the Landlord's  reversion"  means the immediate
               reversion of the Property expectant on the expiry of the Term

          (b)  any  reference  to "this  Lease"  includes  where the  context so
               admits this deed and any other deed or document  which may at any
               time be  supplemental  to or vary  this  Lease  or  which  may he
               entered into pursuant to or in accordance  with this Lease at the
               request  or  with  the  consent  of  the  Tenant  or  any  of its
               predecessors in title

          (c)  the  expression  "Landlord"  shall  where the  context  so admits
               include the person for the time being  entitled to the Landlord's
               reversion

          (d)  the  expression  "Tenant"  shall  include the person for the time
               being in whom the tenant's interest under this Lease is vested

          (e)  the word "person"  includes an individual a body corporate a firm
               an  unincorporated  association  or  any  other  body  or  entity
               possessing legal personality

          (f)  wherever  this Lease  provides for any matter to be determined by
               the  Landlord's  Surveyor  the  determination  of the  Landlord's
               Surveyor shall he binding (save in the case of manifest error)

          (g)  words importing the singular number include the plural number and
               vice versa and words importing one gender include all genders

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          (h)  where there are two or more  persons  included in the  expression
               "the Tenant"  covenants and  obligations  expressed to be entered
               into by the  Tenant  shall be deemed to be  entered  into by such
               persons jointly and severally

          (i)  any statute or provision of any statute referred to in this Lease
               shall be deemed to include any statutory  amendment  modification
               or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force and any order
               instrument and regulation made thereunder save that the foregoing
               shall not apply to any  reference  herein to the Town and Country
               Planning  (Use  Classes)  Order  1987  or to  Section  42 of  the
               Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 or to Section 16 of the Landlord and
               Tenant  (Covenants) Act 1995 (save for amendments to any of these
               provisions in force at the date of this Lease)

          (j)  any covenant or agreement by the Tenant not to do an act or thing
               shall be construed  as if it were a covenant or agreement  not to
               do or permit or suffer such act or thing

          (k)  references to any right  exercisable  by or excepted and reserved
               to the Landlord  (including  for example any right to have access
               to or entry upon the Property)  shall where the context so admits
               include the exercise of such right by any  superior  landlord and
               all persons authorised by the Landlord or any superior landlord

          (l)  in any case in which the consent or  approval of the  Landlord is
               required  under this Lease the giving of such consent or approval
               shall be conditional upon the consent or approval of any superior
               landlord or other reversioner being obtained and of any mortgagee
               or mortgagees  of the Landlord or any superior  landlord or other
               reversioner  and of the insurers or  underwriters of the Landlord
               or any  superior  landlord  or  reversioner  so  far as any  such
               further  consent or approval  may be required and nothing in this
               Lease   implies  that  any  such  further   consent  may  not  he
               unreasonably withheld

          (m)  any consent approval  authorisation  notification  notice request
               requirement or  recommendation or demand for payment or repayment
               of any money  required  given or made under this Lease shall take
               effect or be given only if given or made in writing

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          (n)  in  interpreting  this Lease the wording  contained  in the index
               attached  to this Lease or the  headings  to clauses  sub-clauses
               schedules parts of schedules or paragraphs  within .this Lease or
               upon the covers of this deed shall be disregarded

          (o)  references in this deed to clauses  sub-clauses and schedules are
               to  clauses   sub-clauses  and  schedules  of  this  deed  unless
               otherwise stated

          (p)  all  Schedules to this Lease shall form part of this Lease and it
               is agreed  that the  Landlord  and the Tenant  shall  comply with
               their respective obligations contained in such Schedules

2.        The Grant of the Lease

          The Landlord lets the Property to the Tenant for the Contractual  Term
          Together  With the rights set out in Part Two of Schedule I But Except
          and  Reserving  the rights  stated to be excepted and reserved in Part
          Three of Schedule I And subject to the Title Encumbrances

3.        Rents And Other Financial Provisions

3.1       Rents

          The Tenant  covenants  with the Landlord to pay to the Landlord by way
          of rent:

          (a)  The  Rent as from  (and  including)  the Rent  Commencement  Date
               throughout  the  remainder of the Term such rent to be payable by
               equal  quarterly  instalments in advance on the Quarter Days save
               that:

               (i)  the  first  payment  in  respect  of  the  period  from  and
                    including the Rent  Commencement  Date to and including that
                    day being  the day  immediately  preceding  the first of the
                    Quarter Days  following  the later of the Rent  Commencement
                    Date and the date of this deed shall be made on the later of
                    the Rent Commencement Date and the date of this deed and

               (ii) where the Rent shall be payable in respect of a period which
                    shall  comprise part of (but not the whole of) a Quarter the
                    Rent shall be

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                    apportioned on a daily basis by  reference  to the number of
                    days in such Quarter

          (b)  the  Service  Charge at the times and in the manner  provided  by
               Schedule 2

          (c)  within 5 working  days of written  demand any sums  specified  in
               clause 4

3.2       Rates and outgoings

          (a)  The Tenant  shall pay and  indemnify  the  Landlord  against  all
               existing  and  future  rates  taxes  duties  charges  assessments
               impositions and other outgoings  whatsoever  (whether  imposed by
               statute or otherwise and whether of a national or local character
               and  whether in the nature of capital or  revenue)  now or at any
               time during the Term  payable in respect of or imposed or charged
               upon the Property or upon the owner or occupier in respect of the
               Property  during  the  Term  except  such  payments  as  shall be
               occasioned by any disposition of or dealing with the ownership of
               any estate or interest  expectant in reversion on the Term and if
               any such rates taxes duties charges  assessments  impositions and
               other  outgoings  are  charged  in  respect  of the  Property  in
               conjunction  with any other property then the Tenant shall within
               fourteen  days after  demand by the  Landlord  pay the Landlord a
               fair and reasonable proportion of the same which proportion shall
               in the  absence of  agreement  be  determined  by the  Landlord's
               Surveyor

          (b)  If the  Property or any part or parts  thereof  shall at any time
               prior to the Lease  Termination Date be unoccupied for any period
               the Tenant shall indemnify the Landlord in respect of such relief
               against rates or other  outgoings which would have been available
               to the Landlord  following the Lease  Termination Date (and which
               is not  available to the Landlord) if the Property or any part or
               parts thereof had not been unoccupied as mentioned

          (c)  Without  prejudice to any other  provisions  of this Lease if any
               development  shall be carried out or commenced  upon the whole or
               any part of the  Property  by the  Tenant or any  Undertenant  or
               there shall be any change of user of the whole or any part of the
               Property  by the  Tenant or any  Undertenant  or any  disposition
               shall he effected of the whole or any part of the Property by the
               Tenant or any Undertenant which in any such case shall render the
               Landlord

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               liable  to any tax levy  duty  charge  assessment  or  imposition
               whatsoever whether imposed by statute or otherwise and whether of
               a  national  or local  character  and  whether  in the  nature of
               capital or revenue the Tenant  shall  indemnity  the  Landlord in
               respect of any such tax levy duty charge assessment or imposition

3.3       To pay for utility services

          The  Tenant  covenants  with the  Landlord  to pay and  discharge  all
          existing and future  costs  charges and  outgoings of whatever  nature
          payable in respect of the supply or provision of any utility  services
          for or serving the Property or any part thereof

3.4       VAT

          Where  under the terms of this  Lease the Tenant is obliged to pay any
          sum  (whether  of a  specified  amount or  otherwise)  and such sum is
          wholly or partly  attributable to the supply of such goods or services
          as are within the charge to Value Added Tax under the Law for the time
          being  in force  such  sum  shall he  deemed  for all  purposes  to be
          increased  by the amount of such Value Added Tax and the Tenant  shall
          notwithstanding  anything contained in this Lease pay such Value Added
          Tax save in so far as the  Landlord is able to obtain  credit for such
          Value  Added  Tax as an  input  tax  and it is  hereby  agreed  by the
          Landlord and the Tenant that:

          (a)  the Landlord (or its  managing  agents)  shall render a receipted
               tax  invoice  addressed  to the Tenant in respect of any  taxable
               supply made to the Tenant  pursuant to this Lease upon receipt of
               payment for the same

          (b)  for the  purposes  of this  clause 3.4 the  expressions  "taxable
               supply"  "input  tax"  and  "tax  invoice"  shall  have  the same
               meanings as they do in the Value Added Tax Act 1994 and

          (c)  any Value Added Tax payable by the Tenant to the  Landlord  shall
               be  recoverable in the same manner as the sum in respect of which
               such Value Added Tax is payable

3.5            Interest for late payment

          (a)  If any monies  payable to the Landlord under this Lease shall not
               be paid on any of the days  appointed  for payment  (whether  the
               same  shall  have been  formally

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               demanded or not) or if payable following demand shall not be paid
               within fourteen days after demand being made the Tenant shall pay
               interest  upon such monies  from the date when such monies  shall
               become due or (in the case of payments  payable after demand) the
               date of demand  until and  including  the date of actual  payment
               (whether  after or  before  any  judgment)  such  interest  to be
               calculated  from  day to day at a rate of four per  centum  above
               Base Rate and to be compounded on each of the Quarter Days

          (b)  If any payment of any monies  payable to the Landlord  under this
               Lease  shall as a result of a breach by the  Tenant of any of its
               obligations  under this Lease be declined  by the  Landlord so as
               not to waive any breach of covenant the Tenant shall pay interest
               upon such  monies  from the date the  payment  became  due to the
               earlier  of the  date  upon  which  payment  is  accepted  by the
               Landlord  or that date  which  shall he  fourteen  days after the
               Tenant  notified the Landlord in writing that the breach has been
               remedied (such notification to be given not earlier than the date
               upon which the breach has been  remedied)  and  proffers  payment
               such interest to he compounded and calculated in accordance  with
               the provisions of clause 3.5(a)

          (c)  Nothing in this  clause 3.5 shall  entitle the Tenant to withhold
               or delay any  payment of any sum  payable  under this Lease after
               the date upon which it first becomes  payable or in any other way
               affect any other  rights  which the  Landlord  shall have arising
               from any failure or delay on the part of the Tenant in payment of
               any monies payable under this Lease

3.6            No right of' set off/direct bank payment

               The  Tenant  covenants  to pay all rents and other  sums  payable
               under this Lease without any deduction whatsoever (whether by way
               of set off or  otherwise)  and (if and to the extent  required by
               the Landlord) by banker's  order or direct debit  transfer to any
               bank and account in the United Kingdom that the Landlord may from
               time to time nominate

4.        Insurance

4.1       Insurance Rent

          The Tenant covenants with the Landlord to pay a sum equal to:

          (a)  the  cost  (which  shall  not  be  unreasonably  above  rates  of
               insurance  premium  generally  available in the London  insurance
               market and offered by insurers  of repute  against  risks no less
               comprehensive than the Insured Risks for premises in all respects
               similar to the Property in type size  location  construction  and
               capable of being used for all purposes permitted by this Lease as
               they may be from time to time) the  Landlord  incurs in  insuring
               against  employer's  liability  and  public  liability  risks  in
               respect of the Property  and  insuring  the Property  against the
               Insured Risks including:

               (i)  the preparation and settlement of any insurance claim

               (ii) the cost of complying with any  requirements  of the insurer
                    and

               (iii)valuation of the whole or any part of the Property  (but not
                    more than once in every three year period)

          (b)  the cost the  Landlord  incurs in insuring  against  three years'
               loss of the  yearly  rent and the  Service  Charge  arising  from
               damage to the Property by any Insured Risks

          The  insurance  cover  may  include  VAT and take due  account  of the
          effects of inflation and escalation of costs and the Landlord's proper
          estimate  of the market rent in the  context of ensuing  rent  reviews
          and/or the end of the Term and the Landlord will be entitled to retain
          any commissions paid to it

4.2       Tenant's insurance obligations

          The Tenant covenants with the Landlord:

          (a)  not to do or omit in or upon the Property anything which may:

               (i)  render the Landlord liable to pay in respect of the Property
                    more than the rate of premium it might  expect to pay in the
                    open market to insure  premises of a similar nature let on a
                    similar basis against the Insured Risks or

               (ii) restrict  or make  void or  voidable  any  policy  for  such
                    insurance

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          (b)  to pay to the  Landlord  on demand  any  increase  in the rate of
               premium and all expenses properly incurred in connection with any
               renewal of such policy  rendered  necessary by a breach of clause
               4.2(a)

          (c)  If:

               (i)  any part of the  Property  is  destroyed  or  damaged by any
                    Insured Risk and

               (ii) the insurance  monies are wholly or partially  irrecoverable
                    by  reason  solely or in part of any act or  default  of the
                    Tenant or any person  deriving title under the Tenant or any
                    of their respective agents employees or licensees

                    the Tenant must pay to the Landlord on demand a sum equal to
                    the whole or a fair  proportion (as the case may require) of
                    the irrecoverable insurance monies

          (d)  not to insure the Property against any of the Insured Risks

          (e)  to notify the  Landlord  immediately  in writing of damage to the
               Property by any Insured Risk

          (f)  in the event of damage to the  Property  by any  Insured  Risk or
               Uninsured  Risk rendering them unfit for occupation or use (if so
               required  by the  Landlord)  to  remove  from  the  Property  all
               property belonging to the Tenant or to any third party within one
               month of such damage and/or to indemnify the Landlord against the
               cost of doing so

          (g)  in the  event of  damage to the  Property  by any of the  Insured
               Risks  to  pay to the  Landlord  on  demand  a sum  equal  to any
               uninsured excess to which the insurance policy may be subject

          (h)  not to leave the Property  continuously  unoccupied for more than
               21  days  without  notifying  the  Landlord  and  providing  such
               caretaking or security  arrangements  as the Landlord's  insurers
               may require and/or the Landlord may reasonably require

4.3       Landlord's covenant to insure

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          The  Landlord  covenants  with the Tenant to keep insured the Property
          against loss or damage by the Insured  Risks with an insurer of repute
          subject  to  such  exclusions  conditions  limitations  and  uninsured
          excesses as the insurer may reasonably apply in a sum equal to:

          (a)  the  Landlord's   opinion  of  the  full  cost  of  reinstatement
               including  professional  fees and the cost of removing all debris
               (excluding  contents  and  stock  debris)  from  the  site of the
               Property and other incidental expenses and

          (b)  three  years'  loss of the rent first  reserved by this Lease and
               Service Charge

4.4       Reinstatement

          (a)  The Landlord  covenants  with the Tenant subject to any necessary
               labour and  materials  being and  remaining  available  which the
               Landlord  must use  reasonable  endeavours  to  obtain as soon as
               possible to cause all  insurance  monies  received  (except  sums
               received for loss of rent) to be applied in clearing the site and
               reinstating  the Property and to pay any shortfall out of its own
               monies  save  to the  extent  that  shortfall  arises  due to the
               failure of the Tenant to comply with its covenants in clause 4.2

          (b)  Any reference to reinstating  the Property in clauses 4.3 4.4 4.5
               4.6 and 4.7 means that the Property is  reinstated  substantially
               as it was before the relevant damage or destruction but not so as
               to provide  accommodation  identical in layout if it would not be
               sensibly practicable to do so

4.5       Suspension of Rent

          (a)  If the  Property or any part of it is so  destroyed or damaged by
               an  Insured  Risk as to make it unfit  for  occupation  or use or
               inaccessible the Rent and the Service Charge or a fair proportion
               according to the nature and extent of the damage  sustained  will
               not be payable until the earlier of the date on which:

               (i)  the  Property has been (as the case may be)  reinstated  and
                    made fit for  occupation or use  (excluding  fitting out and
                    replacement of contents) or made accessible or


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               (ii) the expiry of three  years from the date of such damage (but
                    this shall not apply to the extent that insurance monies are
                    not payable owing to the act or default of the Tenant or any
                    person  deriving title under the Tenant or their  respective
                    agents employees licensees or contractors)

                    and the  Landlord  shall  repay  to the  Tenant  any Rent or
                    Service Charge (or a proportion as appropriate)  paid by the
                    Tenant  before  the date of such  damage and  relating  to a
                    period after such date

          (b)  Any dispute as to the amount or duration of the rent to be abated
               will be settled by a single  arbitrator  to be  appointed  by the
               president  for  the  time  being  of  the  Royal  Institution  of
               Chartered Surveyors

4.6       Options to Terminate

          (a)  If the  Property  or a  substantial  part of it is  destroyed  or
               damaged by an Insured  Risk this Lease may be  terminated  by the
               Landlord  giving  to the  Tenant  (within  12 months  after  such
               destruction or damage) not less than six months' notice

          (b)  If for any  reason  outside  the  Landlord's  control  it  proves
               impossible  to commence  rebuilding  work within two years of the
               date of such damage or destruction  the Landlord may by notice to
               the Tenant terminate this Lease and upon receipt by the Tenant of
               such notice the Term shall end

          (c)  If either the Landlord has not commenced  rebuilding work on site
               within two years of the date of such damage or destruction or the
               Landlord has not completed  reinstatement  of the Property within
               two years and six  months of such date then in either  event this
               Lease may be  terminated by the Tenant giving to the Landlord not
               less than six  months'  notice and upon the expiry of such notice
               the  Term  shall  end but if by the  expiry  of such  notice  the
               Premises  have been  reinstated  the notice will be void and this
               Lease will continue in full force and effect

          (d)  If this Lease is terminated  pursuant to clause 4.6(a) (b) or (c)
               the  Landlord  will  be  entitled  to  retain  the  whole  of the
               insurance monies for its absolute use and benefit

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4.7       Uninsured Risks

          (a)  For the purpose of this clause 4.7:

               (i)  These  provisions  shall  apply  from the date on which  any
                    Insured Risk becomes an Uninsured  Risk but only in relation
                    to the Uninsured Risk

               (ii) References  to an Insured Risk  becoming an  Uninsured  Risk
                    shall without limitation include the application by insurers
                    of an exclusion  condition or  limitation to an Insured Risk
                    to the  extent to which  such risk  thereby is or becomes an
                    Uninsured Risk

               (iii)The  Landlord  shall notify the Tenant in writing as soon as
                    reasonably  practicable  after an  Insured  Risk  becomes an
                    Uninsured Risk

          (b)  If during the Term the Property or a substantial part of it shall
               be damaged or destroyed  by an  Uninsured  Risk so as to make the
               Property or a substantial  part of it unfit for occupation or use
               or inaccessible:

               (i)  the yearly rent or a fair proportion according to the nature
                    and extent of the damage sustained will not be payable until
                    the earlier of the date on which:

                    -    the Premises  shall again be fit for  occupation or use
                         excluding  fitting out and  replacement  of contents or
                         made accessible or

                    -    this  Lease  shall be  terminated  in  accordance  with
                         clause 4.7(b)(ii)

               (ii) the  Landlord may within one year of the date of such damage
                    or destruction serve notice on the Tenant confirming that it
                    will  reinstate the Property ("a  Reinstatement  Notice") so
                    that the Property shall be fit for occupation or use or made
                    accessible   and  if  the   Landlord   fails   to   serve  a
                    Reinstatement  Notice this Lease will  automatically  end on
                    the  date  one  year  after  the  date  of  such  damage  or
                    destruction

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          (c)  Clause  4.7(b)  shall not apply if an  Insured  Risk  shall  have
               become  an  Uninsured  Risk  owing to the act or  default  of the
               Tenant or any  person  deriving  title  under the Tenant or their
               respective agents employees licensees or contractors

          (d)  If the Landlord shall have served a Reinstatement Notice and such
               reinstatement  has not been completed by the date three years and
               six months from the date of the Reinstatement  Notice at any time
               after that date the  Landlord  or the Tenant may  terminate  this
               Lease by serving  not less than six  months'  notice on the other
               stating that it  terminates  this Lease and if by the end of such
               notice the Property  and/or  access to it has been  reinstated so
               that the Property is fit for  occupation or use and is accessible
               the notice  shall be void and this Lease  shall  continue in full
               force and effect

          (e)  Service of a  Reinstatement  Notice shall not oblige the Landlord
               to replace any Tenant's  fitting out works or property  belonging
               to the Tenant or any third party

5.        Repair Maintenance And Decoration

5.1       Repair and maintenance

          The Tenant  shall at all times during the Term repair and maintain the
          Property (including any Landlord's Fixtures and Fittings but excluding
          any  Conducting  Media  which are not  within  the  boundaries  of the
          Property or any  Conducting  Media whether  within the Property or not
          which  do not  serve  the  Property  exclusively)  so as to  keep  the
          Property  and the  Landlord's  Fixtures  and Fittings in the state and
          condition  in  which  they  were  found  in  November  1995 as that is
          evidenced by the Schedule of Condition  but if any of' the  Landlord's
          Fixtures and Fittings become beyond repair the Tenant will replace the
          same with  items of  equivalent  value and  usefulness  but  excluding
          damage by:

          (a)  Insured  Risks  except  to  the  extent   insurance   monies  are
               irrecoverable  due solely or in part to any act or default of the
               Tenant or any person  deriving  title  under the Tenant or any of
               their respective agents employees licensees or contractors

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          (b)  an  Uninsured  Risk but  only  insofar  as  damage  caused  by an
               Uninsured  Risk makes the  Property or a  substantial  part of it
               unfit  for  occupation  or use and  only to the  extent  that the
               Uninsured Risk shall not have become an Uninsured Risk by any act
               or default of the Tenant or any person  deriving  title under the
               Tenant or any of their respective  agents employees  licensees or
               contractors

5.2       Decoration

          (a)  The Tenant shall as often as shall be  necessary  and also in the
               seventh  year of the Term  and  thereafter  in  every  successive
               seventh  year of the Term and also in the last six  months of the
               Last Year of the Term  prepare  and paint  varnish  or  otherwise
               treat  (as the case may  require)  in a  proper  and  workmanlike
               manner  with  suitable  materials  of  good  quality  and  to the
               reasonable satisfaction of the Landlord all the internal parts of
               the Property usually or requiring to be so treated and further so
               often as may be  necessary  the Tenant  shall  have  treated in a
               proper and  workmanlike  manner with  suitable  materials of good
               quality  for  preserving  and  protecting  the  same  and  in all
               respects  to the  reasonable  satisfaction  of the  Landlord  all
               internal  parts of the  Property  requiring  treatment  for their
               preservation and protection

          (b)  The Tenant shall as often as shall be  necessary  and also in the
               fifth year of the Term and thereafter in every  successive  fifth
               year of the Term and also in the last six months of the Last Year
               of the Term paint or otherwise treat (as the case may require) in
               a proper and workmanlike  manner with suitable  materials of good
               quality and to the  reasonable  satisfaction  of the Landlord all
               the  external  parts of the  Property  usually or requiring to be
               painted  or  otherwise  treated  and  further  so often as may be
               necessary  the  Tenant  shall  have  treated  in  a  proper  and.
               workmanlike  manner with  suitable  materials of good quality for
               preserving  and  protecting  the same and in all  respects to the
               reasonable satisfaction of the Landlord all external parts of the
               Property   requiring   treatment  for  their   preservation   and
               protection

          (c)  The Tenant shall at all times during the Term:

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               (i)  at least once in every  period of one month clean the inside
                    and outside of all windows and window frames of the Property
                    and all the  glass  (if  any) in the  entrance  doors to the
                    Property and

               (ii) keep the external  parts of the Property in a clean and tidy
                    condition and free from litter and weeds

5.3       Tenant not to discharge into Conducting Media

          The Tenant shall not  discharge  anything  into any of the  Conducting
          Media serving the Property or any other  property as may be in any way
          harmful or corrosive to such Conducting Media or cause any obstruction
          or deposit in such Conducting Media

5.4       Rubbish and Waste Material

          (a)  The Tenant shall ensure that all refuse  rubbish  scrap and waste
               material  are until  removed  stored upon the  Property in proper
               receptacles within the building or buildings the whole or part of
               which obtain part of the  Property  and that not less  frequently
               than once a week all refuse  rubbish scrap and waste material and
               all used tins cans  boxes  and  other  containers  which may have
               accumulated on the Property are removed

          (b)  The Tenant shall not place upon any external part or parts of the
               Property or any areas in the  vicinity of the Property any refuse
               rubbish scrap or waste materials

5.5       Inspection by Landlord and Schedule of Condition/Notice of Breach

          (a)  The Tenant shall  permit the Landlord and all persons  authorised
               by  the  Landlord  at  reasonable  times  (but  at  any  time  in
               emergency)  with or without  workmen and others  upon  reasonable
               prior notice having been given (except in emergency) to enter the
               Property  to view  the  state  of  repair  and  condition  of the
               Property  and to take a schedule of the  Landlord's  Fixtures and
               Fittings in or upon the Property or to ascertain whether anything
               has been done or is being done which constitutes a breach of this
               Lease

          (b)  If the  Landlord  shall serve a notice upon the Tenant  requiring
               the  Tenant  to carry  out any  works of  repair  maintenance  or
               decoration  which the Tenant is

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               obliged to do under this Lease or requiring the Tenant to replace
               any of the Landlord's Fixtures or Fittings which shall have been.
               removed  or  requiring  the  Tenant  to remove  any  unauthorised
               alterations additions signs or other things referred to in clause
               6 (and restore the Property to its condition  prior to the making
               or installation of such unauthorised  alterations additions signs
               or other things) or in respect of any alterations or additions to
               make good any works which shall not comply with the provisions of
               clause 6 then the Tenant shall carry out such works of' repair or
               maintenance  or  other  works  or  effect  such  replacements  as
               required by such  notice to the  reasonable  satisfaction  of the
               Landlord:

               (i)  immediately  in the case of  emergency  or in so far as such
                    notice requires the Tenant:

                    -    to make  good any  failure  on its  part to  clean  the
                         inside and outside of all windows and window  frames of
                         the Property and all the glass (if any) in the entrance
                         doors   thereto  in   accordance   with  the   Tenant's
                         obligations under this Lease or

                    -    to make  good any  failure  on its part to  remove  any
                         refuse rubbish scrap or waste material or any used tins
                         cans boxes or other containers or

                    -    to remove  any  unauthorised  additions  signs or other
                         things  referred  to  in  clause  6  (and  restore  the
                         Property  to  its  condition  prior  to the  making  or
                         installation of such additions signs or other things)

               (ii) in all other cases as soon as reasonably  practicable and in
                    any event not later than the expiry of the period  specified
                    by the notice  which shall be not less than two months after
                    the service of such notice by the Landlord upon the Tenant

          (c)  If the Tenant  shall not comply  with a notice as  referred to in
               clause  5.5(b)  within the  period  specified  by such  notice or
               sooner is required in  accordance  with the  provisions of clause
               5.5(b)  then (but  without  prejudice  to) any other right of the
               Landlord) the Landlord and persons authorised by the Landlord

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               may enter  upon the  Property  and carry out such works of repair
               maintenance or decoration or other works or  replacements  at the
               expense  of  the  Tenant  and  such  expense  together  with  all
               professional  charges and other  expenses which may be reasonably
               and  properly  incurred by the Landlord in  connection  with such
               matters  shall be repaid by the  Tenant  to the  Landlord  within
               fourteen days after demand

5.6       Defective Premises

          (a)  The Tenant  shall give notice to the Landlord of any defect to or
               disrepair in the  Property or any part  thereof  which may render
               the  Landlord  subject  to  any  liability  under  common  law or
               Legislation  immediately the Tenant or any Undertenant shall have
               knowledge of the same or ought to have had  knowledge of the same
               by the exercise of proper care diligence or enquiry

          (b)  The Tenant  shall  display and maintain  upon the  Property  such
               notice or notices as the  Landlord  shall  reasonably  require in
               relation to any of the matters  referred to in clause  5.6(a) and
               in such  position or positions as the Landlord  shall  reasonably
               require

6.        Alterations  The Planning  Acts The CDM  Regulations  And  Legislation
          Generally And Aerials Signs And Advertisements

6.1       Alterations

          (a)  The Tenant  shall not make any  alterations  or  additions to the
               Property or any part or parts thereof or to any of the Conducting
               Media  in  the  Property  or  to  any  electrical   equipment  or
               installations  of any description  within the Property without in
               any such case the previous  consent of the Landlord (such consent
               not to he unreasonably withheld or delayed) nor otherwise than in
               accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Landlord
               (such  approval  not  to be  unreasonably  withheld  or  delayed)
               PROVIDED  THAT the  Landlord may seek such advice as the Landlord
               shall require from surveyors and other  professional  advisers in
               connection with any such application for consent or approval

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          (b)  Without prejudice to the provisions of clause 6.1(a) or any other
               provisions  of this  Lease  if at any  time  during  the Term any
               alterations  or  additions  shall be made to the  Property or any
               part  thereof or the  Tenant  shall wish to make or to permit any
               such alterations or additions:

               (i)  the Tenant  shall (if and to the extent so  required  by the
                    Landlord  in  writing)  during  the  Last  Year of the  Term
                    restore the Property to the  condition in which it was prior
                    to the carrying out of such alterations or additions

               (ii) the Tenant  shall  procure  that the  Landlord  all relevant
                    authorities and the insurers or underwriters of the Landlord
                    are  notified of the date on which work on such  alterations
                    or additions  is due to commence  (such  notification  to be
                    given not later than  fourteen  days  before  such date) and
                    that the Landlord all relevant  authorities and the insurers
                    or underwriters of the Landlord are subsequently notified in
                    writing as soon as any such  alterations  or  additions  are
                    completed  the  Landlord at the same time being  supplied by
                    the  Tenant  with  three   complete  sets  of  drawings  and
                    specifications  showing the  alterations  and  additions  as
                    carried out

               (iii)the  Tenant  shall  ensure  that  all such  alterations  and
                    additions are carried out in a good and  workmanlike  manner
                    with maximum  despatch with good quality  materials (not, in
                    any event  including high alumina  cement  woodwool slabs or
                    formers calcium silicate bricks or tiles calcium chloride or
                    blue asbestos or other deleterious  materials or substances)
                    and (so far as they shall apply) strictly in accordance with
                    all relevant British Standards and British Standard Codes of
                    Practice

               (iv) the  Tenant  shall  procure  that all such  alterations  and
                    additions  are  carried  out  in  accordance  with  all  the
                    requirements  and  regulations  of  all  utility   companies
                    providing  electricity  gas water drainage  services  and/or
                    other  services  who may be  affected  and the Tenant  shall
                    further  ensure that any  electrical  works included in such
                    alterations and additions are carried out in accordance with
                    the terms and  conditions  laid down by the  Institution  of
                    Electrical Engineers

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               (v)  the  Tenant  shall  ensure  that  all such  alterations  and
                    additions  are  carried  out  in  accordance  with  all  the
                    requirements and regulations of all public bodies in any way
                    affected the requirements and  recommendations  of the local
                    fire officer and the  requirements of all Legislation and in
                    particular  (but not by way of limitation)  the Tenant shall
                    ensure that the  provisions  of clause 6.2 are complied with
                    in all respects insofar as they are relevant

               (vi) the  Tenant  shall  procure  that  any such  alterations  or
                    additions  are carried out in such manner that all covenants
                    conditions restrictions stipulations or agreements affecting
                    the whole or any part of the  Property  or the  Landlord  as
                    owner  are  strictly  observed  and  performed  and that any
                    easements rights privileges or liberties which third parties
                    enjoy  in on over or  under  the  whole  or any  part of the
                    Property or other land are not obstructed or interfered with
                    and  that  there  is no  trespass  upon  or  damage  to  any
                    Neighbouring   Property   nor   any   injury   nuisance   or
                    inconvenience to the Landlord or any owners and occupiers of
                    any Neighbouring Property or to the general public

               (vii)the  Tenant  shall  permit  the   Landlord's   Surveyor  the
                    Landlord and all other persons authorised by the Landlord at
                    all  times   without  in  any  way  affecting  the  Tenant's
                    obligations  under this Lease or  relieving  the Tenant from
                    liability in respect of such obligations to inspect and test
                    the work in progress on any such  alterations  or  additions
                    and the  materials  used or to be used and the Tenant  shall
                    procure  the  removal  remedying  and  making  good  as  the
                    Landlord or the Landlord's Surveyor shall direct of any work
                    or materials which do not fulfil the requirements  contained
                    in this  clause 6.1 and in all  respects  to the  Landlord's
                    reasonable satisfaction

               (viii) the  Tenant  shall  keep the  Landlord  fully  indemnified
                    against  all Losses of the  Landlord  or any third  party on
                    account  of the  death of or  injury  to any  person  or the
                    destruction of or damage to any property or

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                    the  obstruction  of or  interference  with any  proprietary
                    right or by any  statutory  undertaking  local  authority or
                    other body in any way affected in or in  consequence  of the
                    carrying out of such alterations or additions or any failure
                    by the Tenant to comply fully with the Tenant's  obligations
                    in this clause 6.1

               (ix) if the Landlord  shall so  reasonably  require  prior to the
                    commencement of any such alterations or additions the Tenant
                    shall provide adequate security on terms reasonably required
                    by the  Landlord  in the form of a  deposit  of money or the
                    provision  of a bond to  ensure  that  such  alterations  or
                    additions  shall be fully completed and in compliance in all
                    respects with the provisions of this clause 6.1

               (x)  if and when called upon to do so the Tenant shall produce to
                    the Landlord  such  evidence as the Landlord may  reasonably
                    require to satisfy itself that the provisions of this clause
                    6.1 have complied with in all respects

6.2       The Planning Acts and Legislation generally

          (a)  The  Tenant  shall at all  times  during  the Term  comply in all
               respects with the provisions and  requirements of all Legislation
               (including  but not by way of limitation  the Planning  Acts) and
               all licences consents permissions and conditions (if any) granted
               or imposed  under the Planning Acts or any other  Legislation  so
               far as they  respectively  relate to or  affect  the whole or any
               part of the  Property  or any  operations  works  acts or  things
               already or hereafter  to be carried out executed  done or omitted
               on the  whole  or any  part of the  Property  or the user of' the
               whole or any part of the Property for any purpose or purposes

          (b)  The Tenant shall  throughout  the Term so often as occasion shall
               require at the expense in all respects of the Tenant  obtain from
               (as  the  case  may  be)  the  local  planning  authority  or the
               appropriate  Government Department or Secretary of State or other
               authority  or  regulatory  body all such  licences  consents  and
               permissions  (if any) as may be required  for the carrying out by
               the Tenant or any  Undertenant  of any operations on the whole or
               any part of the Property or the institution or continuance by the
               Tenant  or any  Undertenant  on the  whole  or  any  part  of the
               Property  of any use of the  whole  or

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               any part of the Property which may he required under the Planning
               Acts or any other  Legislation  But the Tenant shall not make any
               application for planning  permission without the previous consent
               of the Landlord (such consent not to be unreasonably  withheld or
               delayed)

          (c)  The Tenant  shall pay and  satisfy any charge that may be imposed
               under the  Planning  Acts in respect of the  carrying  out by the
               Tenant or any  Undertenant of any alterations on the whole or any
               part of the Property or the  institution  or  continuance  by the
               Tenant or any  Undertenant of any use of the whole or any part of
               the Property

          (d)  Immediately  after  the  grant  of  any  planning  permission  or
               refusals of any application  for planning  permission made by the
               Tenant or any  Undertenant  the Tenant shall give to the Landlord
               full particulars in writing of such grant or refusal and supply a
               copy to the  Landlord  and in the  case of a  refusal  of such an
               application  or a grant subject to conditions  which the Landlord
               considers  unreasonable  if  the  Landlord  so  requires  at  the
               Landlord's expense the Tenant shall itself (where such refusal or
               grant is in respect of an  application  for  planning  permission
               made by or on behalf of the Tenant)  give notice of appeal to the
               relevant  authority and proceed  diligently  with such appeal and
               keep the Landlord  informed of the progress or where such refusal
               or grant is in respect of an application for planning  permission
               made by or on behalf of any  Undertenant the Tenant shall procure
               that the Undertenant  shall give notice of appeal to the relevant
               authority  and proceed  diligently  with such appeal and keep the
               Landlord informed of the progress of such appeal

          (e)  Notwithstanding  any consent which may be granted by the Landlord
               under  this  Lease  the  Tenant  shall  not carry out or make any
               alteration  or addition to the whole or any part of the  Property
               or any  change  of use of the  whole or any part of the  Property
               (being an  alteration  or  addition  or change of use for which a
               planning  permission  needs to be  obtained)  before  a  planning
               permission  for such matter has been  produced to and approved by
               the Landlord  (such approval not to be  unreasonably  withheld or
               delayed) PROVIDED ALWAYS that the grounds upon which the Landlord
               may  refuse  to  express  its  approval  to  any

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               such planning  permission shall include (but shall not he limited
               to) the ground that the period of the  permission  or anything to
               which  such  permission  is  made  subject  is in the  reasonable
               opinion  of  the  Landlord  prejudicial  to its  interest  in the
               Property  or in any other  property  whether  during  the Term or
               following the expiry of the Term

          (f)  If the Tenant or any  Undertenant  commences any  development for
               which  planning  permission  has been  granted  then (save to the
               extent the  Landlord  shall  otherwise  direct) the Tenant  shall
               carry out before the Lease  Termination Date any works stipulated
               to be carried  out to the  Property by a date  subsequent  to the
               Lease Termination Date as a condition of any planning  permission
               which may have been granted  during or prior to the  commencement
               of the Term

          (g)  If the Tenant or any Undertenant  shall receive any  compensation
               in respect of' the interest of the Tenant or such  Undertenant in
               the whole or any part of the Property  because of any restriction
               placed upon the user or  development  of the whole or any part of
               the Property  under or by virtue of the Planning Acts then within
               fourteen  days after  demand by the Landlord the Tenant shall pay
               to the Landlord such  proportion of such  compensation as is fair
               and  reasonable  having  regard to any  decrease  in value of the
               interest  of the  Landlord  in the  Property  by  virtue  of such
               restriction and in the event of the Landlord and the Tenant being
               unable to agree the amount of such  proportion  such amount shall
               be determined by a single  arbitrator  acting in accordance  with
               the Arbitration Act 1996 and appointed in default of agreement by
               the President or next most senior officer  available of the Royal
               Institution  of  Chartered  Surveyors on the  application  of the
               Landlord or the Tenant

          (h)  If and when called upon to do so the Tenant shall  produce to the
               Landlord  all such  plans  documents  and other  evidence  as the
               Landlord may  reasonably  require in order to satisfy itself that
               the  provisions of this clause 6.2 have been complied with in all
               respects

          (i)  The Tenant  shall not without the consent of the  Landlord  enter
               into any agreement under the Planning Acts affecting the whole or
               any part of the  Property  (such  consent not to be  unreasonably
               withheld or delayed where the Tenant has obtained the  Landlord's
               consent in principle  pursuant to any other term of this Lease in
               respect of the matter to which such  agreement  shall  relate and
               provided  that  such  agreement  does not  impose  any  actual or
               contingent liability upon the Landlord or any superior landlord)

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          (j)  The  Tenant  shall   immediately   upon  receipt  of  any  notice
               communication or proposal beneficially or detrimentally affecting
               the  whole  or any  part  of the  Property  send a copy  of  such
               communication  notice  or  proposal  to  the  Landlord  and if so
               requested by the Landlord  join with the Landlord in opposing any
               such communication notice or proposal

          (k)  The Tenant shall not serve any notice under the Planning Acts nor
               permit any  Undertenant  to serve any notice  under the  Planning
               Acts  requiring  any  authority  to purchase  the interest of the
               Tenant  or  such  Undertenant  in the  whole  or any  part of the
               Property

          (l)  The  Tenant  shall  not make any  application  or enter  into any
               agreement  for or in respect of the adoption by any  authority or
               company of any road footpath  Conducting Media or any other thing
               upon fronting or serving the whole or any part of the Property

6.3       The CDM Regulations

          (a)  To the extent that any Construction  Work to be undertaken by the
               Tenant or any Undertenant or any licensee of or person authorised
               by the Tenant or any  Undertenant in connection with the Property
               comes  within  the  scope  of  the  CDM  Regulations  the  Tenant
               covenants  and warrants with and to the Landlord that a notice of
               declaration  in  accordance  with  the CDM  Regulations  shall be
               served on the Health and  Safety  Executive  by the Tenant or (if
               appropriate) the relevant  Undertenant  identifying the Tenant or
               the Undertenant (as  appropriate) as the CDM Client in respect of
               such  Construction  Work and that a copy of' such notice shall he
               supplied at the same time to the Landlord

          (b)  To the extent that any Construction  Work to be undertaken by the
               Landlord in connection  with the Property  comes within the scope
               of the CDM Regulations  the Landlord  covenants and warrants with
               and to the Tenant that a notice of declaration in accordance with
               the CDM  Regulations  shall be served on the  Health  and  Safety
               Executive by the Landlord identifying itself as the CDM Client in
               respect of such  Construction Work and that a copy of such notice
               shall be supplied at the same time to the Tenant

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6.4       Aerials signs and advertisements

          With the prior consent of the Landlord (which may not  unreasonably be
          withheld or delayed)  the Tenant may attach to the  Property any signs
          notices flag poles  aerials and dishes  which comply with  Legislation
          but no such  consent  will be required for the Tenant to attach to the
          Property any reasonable signs identifying the occupier of the Property
          and the business  carried on there so long as such signs  nevertheless
          comply with Legislation

7.        User

7.1       Use of the Property

          (a)  The  Tenant  shall not use or occupy the whole or any part of the
               Property otherwise than for the Authorised User

          (b)  The Tenant shall not bring into the Property or place or store or
               permit to remain in or about the  Property any articles or things
               which are  noxious  offensive  especially  combustible  explosive
               radioactive or dangerous

          (c)  The Tenant  shall not reside or sleep upon the Property and shall
               not use the whole or any part of the  Property  for an illegal or
               immoral  purpose or for any noisy noxious  dangerous or offensive
               trade  manufacture  or business or occupation or for the purposes
               of any public or political  meeting or  entertainment  or for the
               purposes of an auction or for anything  which shall be a nuisance
               or annoyance or cause damage or  inconvenience to the Landlord or
               occupiers of any Neighbouring Property or to the public or to any
               local or other authority

          (d)  The Tenant  shall not do anything  which will  overload  with due
               margin for safety or which will in any way cause damage strain or
               cause  damage to or be likely to overload  cause undue  strain or
               cause damage to the walls  staircases  (if any) lifts (if any) or
               ceilings  ceiling members roof or root members of the Property or
               any Conducting Media within or serving the Property

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          (e)  The Tenant  shall not do anything  which will  overload  with due
               margin for safety or be likely to  overload  the  capacity of the
               Conducting  Media and any  related  plant and  equipment  used in
               connection  with  the  supply  to the  Property  of  any  utility
               services or services which are referred to in Schedule 2

          (f)  The Tenant  shall not leave the whole or any part of the Property
               continuously  unoccupied  for more than  twenty-one  days without
               first  notifying  the Landlord and providing  such  caretaking or
               security arrangements as the Landlord shall reasonably require or
               as its insurers or underwriters shall require in order to protect
               the Property from vandalism theft damage or unlawfuI occupation

7.2       Use of the  Estate  Footpaths  the  Estate  Roads the Car  Parking
          Spaces and the Service Areas

          (a)  The Tenant  shall not use the Estate  Footpaths  the Estate Roads
               the Car Parking  Spaces or any  Service  Areas other than for the
               purposes expressly authorised by this Lease

          (b)  The Tenant  shall not park or leave  unattended  any vehicle upon
               the Estate  Roads or upon any other  part of the Estate  with the
               exception of the Car Parking  Spaces and with the exception  also
               that  temporary  parking of vehicles upon the Estate Roads and/or
               any Service Areas for the purposes of loading and unloading shall
               be  permitted  to the extent that and so long as the free passage
               of traffic upon the Estate Roads is not impeded

          (c)  The Tenant shall not deposit any articles of any  description  or
               any oil  fuel  or  rubbish  upon  the  Estate  Roads  the  Estate
               Footpaths  the Car Parking  Spaces any Service Areas or any other
               parts of the  Common  Parts and shall not cause any damage to the
               Estate  Roads the Estate  Footpaths  the Car  Parking  Spaces any
               Service  Areas or any other  parts of the Common  Parts (save for
               fair wear and tear)

          (d)  If the Tenant or any  Undertenant  or their  respective  servants
               agents  invitees or licensees  shall deposit any oil fuel rubbish
               or articles of any  description (or shall cause any damage (other
               than fair wear and tear) to the Estate Footpaths the Estate Roads
               the Car Parking  Spaces any  Service  Areas or any other parts of
               the Common  Parts then  without  prejudice  to) any other  rights
               which the  Landlord  may have against the Tenant the Tenant shall
               within  fourteen  days after  demand  repay to the  Landlord  any
               expenses  reasonably and properly  incurred by the Landlord in or
               about the  removal of such oil fuel  rubbish or  articles  or the
               making good of such damage

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7.3       Estate Regulations

          The Tenant  shall  observe and comply in all respects  throughout  the
          Term with such regulations which may at any time be made or imposed by
          the  Landlord  or any  superior  landlord  or  management  company and
          notified to the Tenant in relation  to the Estate in  connection  with
          safety  security  estate  management  or other  matters  which  are of
          general  benefit  to the  occupiers  and users of the Estate and shall
          procure  that its  servants  agents  invitees  and  licensees  and its
          Undertenants  shall  observe and comply with such  regulations  in all
          respects throughout the Term

8.        Disposal of the Property

8.1       Disposal or the Property and parting with  possession or occupation by
          the Tenant or an Undertenant

          (a)  The Tenant shall not assign transfer or underlet part only of the
               Property  nor  permit  nor  suffer  the  assignment  transfer  or
               underletting  of part only of the Property by any  Undertenant or
               any  sub-underletting  of the Property by any Undertenant and the
               Tenant  shall not accept or agree to a surrender  of part only of
               the Property by the Tenant or any Undertenant

          (b)  The  Tenant  shall  not  part  with   possession  or  permit  the
               occupation  by a third  party  of the  whole  or any part of' the
               Property and shall not share the  occupation  of the whole or any
               part of tile  Property  with a third  party nor permit nor suffer
               any Undertenant to do so other than in any such case by way of an
               assignment  or an  underlease  hereinafter  permitted  under this
               clause  8.1 save that  while the  estate  hereby  created  or the
               estate  created by any  underlease  permitted  by this clause 8.1
               shall he vested in a company  the Tenant or  Undertenant  (as the
               case may be) may share  occupation  of the whole or part or parts
               of the Property with another  company or other  companies  within
               the same Group as itself  provided  that such  shared  occupation
               does not  create  the  relationship  of  landlord  and tenant and
               provided  further that each such other

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               company shall immediately  vacate the Property upon it ceasing to
               be in the same  Group as the  Tenant or the  Undertenant  (as the
               case may be) and the  Tenant  shall  notify the  Landlord  of the
               nature and  identity of the  occupants  whenever any change shall
               take place

          (c)  The  Tenant  shall not hold or occupy  the  Property  or any part
               thereof as trustee or agent or  otherwise  for the benefit of any
               other person

          (d)  The Tenant  shall not assign the  Property as a whole or underlet
               the  Property  as a whole or  permit  the  assignment  of such an
               underlease  by an  Undertenant  without the prior  consent of the
               Landlord  (which consent  (subject to clause 8.1(e)) shall not he
               unreasonably  withheld or delayed) and without first procuring in
               the case of any assignment or underletting that:

               (i)  the assignee or undertenant shall covenant directly with the
                    Landlord to observe and perform the covenants and conditions
                    contained   in  this  Lease   (except  in  the  case  of  an
                    underletting  the  covenant to pay the rents  payable  under
                    this Lease)

               (ii) any  intended  underlessee  of  the  Tenant  shall  covenant
                    directly with the Landlord not to be a party or privy to any
                    agreement or arrangement for commutation in whole or in part
                    of any rent payable under the proposed underlease whether or
                    not in  consideration  of the payment of a lump sum of money
                    or monies  worth  and also not to pay the rack rent  payable
                    under the proposed underlease in advance at intervals or for
                    periods  which are greater than the  intervals or periods at
                    or for which the Rent is payable in advance under the Lease

               (iii)in  the  case  of  an   assignment   a  surety  or  sureties
                    acceptable to the Landlord shall if the Landlord so requires
                    (where it is  reasonable  for the  Landlord  so to do having
                    regard to the financial  standing of the proposed  assignee)
                    act  as  surety  for  the  assignee  and  shall  enter  into
                    covenants and agreements  with the Landlord in the terms set
                    out in Schedule 3 with such variations as the Landlord shall
                    reasonably  require (and for the  avoidance of doubt for the
                    purposes of this clause  8.1(d)(iii) (but not otherwise) any
                    reference in Schedule 3 to "the

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                    Surety"  means the surety or  sureties  referred  to in this
                    clause 8.1(d)(iii)

               (iv) in the case of an underlease a surety or sureties acceptable
                    to the Landlord shall if the Landlord so requires  (where it
                    is reasonable for the Landlord so to do having regard to the
                    financial  standing  of  the  proposed  undertenant)  act as
                    surety for the  undertenant  and shall enter into  covenants
                    and  agreements  with the  Landlord  in the terms set out in
                    Schedule  4  with  such  variations  as the  Landlord  shall
                    reasonably  require (and for the  avoidance of doubt for the
                    purposes of this clause  8.1(d)(iv)  (but not otherwise) any
                    reference  in  Schedule 4 to the Surety  means the surety or
                    sureties referred to in this clause 8.1(d)(iv))

               (v)  the intended assignee or underlessee shall covenant with the
                    Landlord in the same terms as are  contained  in this clause
                    8.1

               (vi) in the case of an underlease such  underlease  shall contain
                    no provision  whereunder the rack rent is payable in advance
                    at  intervals  or for  periods  which are  greater  than the
                    intervals  or periods at or for which the Rent is payable in
                    advance under this Lease

               (vii)in the case of an underlease  the  provisions of Sections 24
                    to 28  (inclusive) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall
                    be excluded

               (viii) in the case of an underlease such underlease shall contain
                    a provision  prohibiting  the  undertenant  from  granting a
                    sub-underlease of the whole or any part of the Property

               (ix) The  Tenant  shall  not grant any right to occupy or use nor
                    part  with or  share  possession  or  occupation  of the Car
                    Parking Spaces or any Service Areas or any of such spaces or
                    any part of such areas nor permit nor suffer any Undertenant
                    to grant any right to occupy or use or to part with or share
                    possession or  occupation  of the Car Parking  Spaces or any
                    Service  Areas  or any of such  spaces  or any  part of such
                    areas other than to or with a permitted assignee undertenant
                    or occupant of the whole or part of the Property for so long
                    as such permitted assignee  undertenant or occupant shall he
                    entitled to occupy the whole or part of the Property

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          (e)  The  Landlord may require as a condition of giving its consent to
               the Tenant to assign the Property  (but only if such  requirement
               does not unreasonably  delay the giving of such consent) that the
               Tenant enters into an "authorised guarantee agreement" within the
               meaning of section 16 of The Landlord and Tenant  (Covenants) Act
               1995 in favour  of the  Landlord  to  contain  such  terms as are
               reasonably  required  by the  Landlord  having  regard to current
               market practice at the time and are permitted by that section

8.2       Mortgages and charges by the Tenant or an Undertenant

          The Tenant shall not:

          (a)  create any mortgage or charge over part only of the Property

          (b)  create  any  mortgage  or charge  over the whole of the  Property
               without the previous  consent of the Landlord (which shall not he
               unreasonably  withheld or delayed in the case of a bona fide loan
               arrangement with a reputable bank or financial institution)

8.3       Notice of disposals mortgages or charges or the Property by the Tenant
          or an Undertenant

          Within one calendar month after such matter being effected and without
          any  demand  from the  Landlord  the Tenant  shall give  notice to the
          Landlord  and to  supply  for its  retention  to the  Landlord  or its
          Solicitors  a copy  certified  by a  Solicitor  as a true  copy of any
          Assignment  Underlease  Probate of a Will  Letters  of  Administration
          Mortgage  or Charge and any other  disposition  which  during the Term
          shall he made of or affect the whole or any part of the  Property  and
          shall pay to the Landlord or its  Solicitors  such  reasonable  sum in
          respect of the registration of such notice as shall he demanded by the
          Landlord or its  Solicitors  payment to be made within  fourteen  days
          after demand

8.4       Signs of and viewing upon sale or re-letting by the Landlord

          The Tenant  shall permit the Landlord or its agents at any time within
          six calendar months next before the Lease  Termination  Date or at any
          time in the event of the

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          Landlord  wishing to dispose of any  interest in the whole or any part
          of the  Property  which shall be superior to the  interest  created by
          this deed to enter upon the  Property  and to affix upon any  suitable
          part but so as not to interfere  unreasonably  with the  occupation of
          the  Property  by the Tenant or any  Undertenant)  a notice  board for
          reletting  our selling the whole our any part of the  Property and the
          Tenant  shall not remove or obscure  any such  notice  board and shall
          permit all  persons by order in writing of the  Landlord or its agents
          to view by appointment the Property at reasonable hours in the daytime
          without interruption

9.        Miscellaneous Tenant's Covenants

9.1       Payment of Landlord's Costs

          (a)  The Tenant shall pay (and in each case within fourteen days after
               demand  by  the  Landlord)  all  reasonable  costs  and  expenses
               (including but nut by way of limitation  the reasonable  lees and
               disbursements of relevant  professionals)  reasonably incurred by
               the Landlord in connection with or incidental to:

               (i)  the  recovery  of sums  payable to the  Landlord  under this
                    Lease or the levy of distress  (whether or not any  distress
                    in the event be levied) or the preparation and/or service of
                    a notice  under  Section 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925
                    and/our in or in contemplation of proceedings under Sections
                    146 and/or  147 of that Act  notwithstanding  forfeiture  is
                    avoided otherwise than by relief granted by the Court or

               (ii) the preparation and/or service of any notice and/or schedule
                    relating to dilapidations  whether or not the same is served
                    prior to or after the Lease  Termination  Date (but relating
                    in all cases only to  dilapidations  which  accrued  upon or
                    prior to the Lease Termination  Date) or otherwise  incurred
                    by the Landlord in relation to any breach of the  provisions
                    of this Lease by the Tenant or

               (iii)enforcing or requiring  the Tenant to remedy a breach of any
                    of the Tenant's obligations under this Lease or

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               (iv) any  application  for consent or  approval  under this Lease
                    even if the same be  refused  our  proffered  subject to any
                    lawful   qualification   our   condition  our  even  if  the
                    application be withdrawn

          (b)  Where the Landlord could recover the cost of professional  advice
               our services  under clause  9.1(a) if they were  undertaken  by a
               third party but those  services  or that  advice are  provided by
               employees of the Landlord or by a company  within the  Landlord's
               Group the Tenant shall pay to the Landlord  within  fourteen days
               alter demand by the Landlord a reasonable sum for such advice and
               services  but not more  than the  amount  which  would  have been
               payable if that  advice or service  had been  provided by a third
               party

9.2       Creation of easements

          The Tenant  shall not permit any new  wayleave  easement  privilege or
          encroachment  to be made or acquired into against or upon the Property
          and in case any such wayleave easement privilege or encroachment shall
          be made or attempted to be made to the  knowledge of the Tenant or any
          Undertenant  (or  which  could  have been  known by the  Tenant or any
          Undertenant  by the exercise of proper care  diligence or enquiry) the
          Tenant shall give immediate  notice of such matter to the Landlord and
          permit the  Landlord and its agents to enter upon the Property for the
          purpose  of  ascertaining  the  nature of any such  wayleave  easement
          privilege  or  encroachment  And at the  request of the  Landlord  the
          Tenant  shall  adopt such means as may be  reasonably  required by the
          Landlord for preventing any such  encroachment  or the  acquisition of
          any such easement right privilege or encroachment

9.3       Indemnities

          (a)  The Tenant  shall  indemnify  and keep the  Landlord  indemnified
               against all Losses relating to or arising from:

               (i)  the  interference  with  or  obstruction  of  any  right  or
                    easement existing for the benefit of other premises over the
                    Property our any part thereof

               (ii) the stoppage of any of the Conducting  Media upon or serving
                    the whole or any part of the  Property  our any part thereof
                    used by or in common with other property

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          (b)  The Tenant  shall  indemnify  and keep  indemnified  the Landlord
               against all Losses by reason of or arising directly or indirectly
               out of the repair or  condition of the Property (in so far as the
               Tenant  is  liable  for such  matters  under  this  Lease) or any
               alteration  to the Property by the Tenant or any  Undertenant  or
               the user of the whole or any part of the Property

          (c)  The Tenant  shall  indemnify  and keep  indemnified  the Landlord
               against all Losses  incurred or  sustained  by the  Landlord as a
               consequence  of any  breach  of  the  obligations  of the  Tenant
               (whether contained in this Lease our implied)

9.4       Delivery of the Property to the  Landlord as at the Lease  Termination
          Date

          (a)  Upon or prior to the  Lease  Termination  Date the  Tenant  shall
               quietly deliver up the Property (and the keys of the Property) to
               the Landlord in such repair and  condition as  prescribed  by the
               covenants on the part of the Tenant  contained in this Lease (and
               clear of any refuse oil and noxious  substances  and any items of
               property which are not Landlord's Fixtures and Fittings and which
               are owned  hired or leased by the  Tenant or any  Undertenant  or
               their respective servants agents or licensees)

          (b)  The  Tenant  shall upon our prior to the Lease  Termination  Date
               have removed  every sign of the name or business of the Tenant or
               other occupiers from the Property

          (c)  If the Tenant  shall not fully  observe the  foregoing  covenants
               contained in this clause 9.4 then (without prejudice to any other
               right of the Landlord):

               (i)  the Tenant  shall  continue to pay to the  Landlord the Rent
                    and all other sums payable  under this Lease in all respects
                    as if the Term had continued until (and including) whichever
                    of the following three dates shall first occur:

                    -    the date when the Tenant shall have fully complied with
                         the Tenant's covenants contained in this clause 9.4 or

                    -    the date when the Landlord could  reasonably  have been
                         expected to complete  all  remedial  works  required to
                         remedy the breach of the Tenant's  covenants  contained
                         in this clause 9.4 or

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                    -    the date from which the  Landlord  becomes  entitled to
                         receive a full open market rent for the  Property  upon
                         an arms length re-letting of the whole of the Property

               (ii) the Tenant shall pay to the Landlord  within  fourteen  days
                    after demand:

                    -    the cost of  putting  the  Property  into the  state of
                         repair  condition and decoration in which it would have
                         been had the  Tenant  complied  with the  terms of this
                         Lease and

                    -    on an indemnity basis all costs and expenses (including
                         fees  and  disbursements  of  relevant   professionals)
                         reasonably  incurred by the Landlord in connection with
                         the matters referred to in this clause 9.4

          (d)  If after the Lease  Termination  Date any items of property which
               are required to be cleared from the Property in  accordance  with
               clause  9.4(a)  shall  remain  in or on the  Property  then  (but
               without  prejudice  to any other  rights  which the  Landlord may
               have)  the  Landlord  may as the  agent  of the  Tenant  or  such
               Undertenant  sell such  property and may keep the proceeds of the
               sale unless the Tenant or any  Undertenant  claims such  proceeds
               within three months after the Lease Termination Date

          (e)  The Tenant shall  indemnify  the Landlord  against any  liability
               incurred by it to any third party whose  property shall have been
               sold by the Landlord in accordance with clause 9.4(d) in the bona
               fide  belief  (which  shall be assumed in the absence of proof to
               the contrary) that such property was owned hired or leased by the
               Tenant or any Undertenant or their respective  servants agents or
               licensees and liable to be so dealt with by the Landlord

          (f)  On the Lease  Termination  Date the Tenant shall hand over to the
               Landlord  each and every  Health and  Safety  File which has come
               into  existence  in  connection  with  any  Construction  Work in
               relation to the Property  within the scope of the CDM Regulations
               and which has been undertaken by the Tenant or any Undertenant or
               any  licensee  of or  person  authorised  by  the  Tenant  or any
               Undertenant

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9.5       Supply of Information

          (a)  Upon making an  application  for any consent or approval which is
               required under this Lease the Tenant shall supply to the Landlord
               such information as the Landlord may reasonably require

          (b)  If and when called upon by the Landlord so to do the Tenant shall
               supply to the  Landlord  from time to time a schedule  containing
               full details (including for the avoidance of doubt particulars of
               rent  and  review  dates)  of all  subsisting  underlettings  and
               occupations of the Property and any other information in relation
               to such matters as the Landlord shall reasonably require

9.6       Observance of the Encumbrances

          Without  prejudice to any other  provision or provisions of this Lease
          the Tenant shall  observe and perform  (but by way of indemnity  only)
          the Title  Encumbrances in so far as they affect the whole or any part
          of the Property and are  subsisting or capable of taking effect or are
          exercisable  our capable of being enforced and shall keep the Landlord
          indemnified  against all Losses  arising as a result of any breach our
          non-observance of such matters during the Term

10.       Miscellaneous Landlord's Covenants

10.1      Quiet enjoyment

          The Landlord  covenants that the Tenant paying the rents payable under
          this Lease and observing and  performing  the covenants and conditions
          contained  in this Lease and on the part of the Tenant to be  observed
          and performed  shall and may  peaceably and quietly  possess and enjoy
          the Property during the Contractual  Term without any  interruption by
          the Landlord or any person lawfully claiming under or in trust for the
          Landlord

10.2      Obtaining of consents of third parties

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          Where the consent or approval of the  Landlord is required  under this
          Lease and the giving of such consent or approval is  conditional  upon
          the consent or approval of any superior  landlord or other reversioner
          being  obtained or of any  mortgagee or  mortgagees of the Landlord or
          any  superior  landlord  or of the  insurers  or  underwriters  of the
          Landlord or any superior  landlord or any other  reversioner so far as
          may be  required  then (save where the  Landlord  shall be entitled to
          withhold its own consent or approval and elects to do so) the Landlord
          shall at the request and cost of the Tenant use reasonable  endeavours
          to obtain  any such  consent  or  approval  and any such cost shall be
          repaid by the Tenant to the Landlord within fourteen days after demand

11.       Miscellaneous Further Agreements and Declarations

11.1      Forfeiture

          (a)  A "Forfeiting Event' is any of the following:

               (i)  any Rent or other sum payable by the Tenant to the  Landlord
                    under this Lease is outstanding  four  twenty-one days after
                    becoming due whether formally demanded or not

               (ii) a breach  by the  Tenant  of any of the  provisions  of this
                    Lease

               (iii)the  Tenant  has any  distress  or  execution  levied on its
                    goods

               (iv) the  Tenant or any  surety  who at any time  guarantees  the
                    obligations of the Tenant under this Lease is Insolvent (but
                    in the case of a  surety  only  where  the  Tenant  does not
                    provide a substitute  surety  reasonably  acceptable  to the
                    Landlord)

               (v)  any surety who at any time guarantees the obligations of the
                    Tenant  under  this  Lease  dies or  ceases to exist and the
                    Tenant  does not  provide  a  substitute  surety  reasonably
                    acceptable to the Landlord

          (b)  "Insolvent" for the purposes of this Lease means in relation to a
               company it shall be unable to pay its debts within the meaning of
               Section 123 of the  Insolvency Act 1986 or a proposal is made for
               a voluntary  arrangement  under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986
               or a receiver  administrative  receiver  or manager is  appointed
               over all or any of its  assets  or a  provisional  liquidator  is

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               appointed under Section 135 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or it goes
               into  liquidation  either  voluntary or compulsory  (other than a
               voluntary  liquidation  solely for the purpose of amalgamation or
               reconstruction  while solvent) or a proposal is made for a scheme
               of arrangement under Section 425 of the Companies Act 1985

          (c)  "Insolvent"  for the  purposes of this Lease means in relation to
               an  individual an  application  is made for an interim order or a
               proposal is made for a voluntary  arrangement  under Part VIII of
               the  Insolvency  Act 1986 or a  bankruptcy  petition is presented
               under Part IX of the  Insolvency  Act 1986 or he enters  into any
               deed or  arrangement  or  composition  with  his  creditors  or a
               receiver of the income of the Property is appointed

          (d)  Whenever a  Forfeiting  Event  exists or occurs the  Landlord may
               enter the whole or part of the Property even if a previous  right
               of entry has been  waived and then the Term shall end but without
               prejudice  to any right of action of either the  Landlord  or the
               Tenant  in  respect  oil  any  antecedent  breach  of any out the
               covenants of the other contained in this Lease

11.2      Exclusion of Landlord's liability

          PROVIDED  ALWAYS  that  nothing  contained  in this clause 11 .2 shall
          apply to any Losses  caused by the  negligence  of the Landlord or the
          Landlord's  agents servants  invitees or licensees or by breach of any
          covenant  on the part of the  Landlord  contained  in this  Lease  the
          Landlord shall not be responsible to the Tenant or any  Undertenant or
          their respective  servants agents invitees or licensees in or upon the
          Property or the Estate or calling  upon the Property or the Estate for
          any Losses  sustained  on the  Property or the Estate or when  calling
          upon the  Property or the Estate and the Tenant  shall  indemnify  the
          Landlord against all such Losses

11.3      Waiver

          Notwithstanding  the acceptance of our demand for rent by the Landlord
          the  Landlord's  Surveyor or its or their agent with  knowledge on the
          part of any such  parties of a breach of any of the  covenants  on the
          part of the Tenant  contained  in this Lease the  Landlord's  right to
          enforce  such  covenant or to forfeit this Lease on the ground of such
          breach  shall

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          remain  in force  and the  Tenant  shall  not in any  proceedings  for
          forfeiture  or otherwise be entitled to rely upon any such  acceptance
          or demand as aforesaid as a defence

11.4      Covenants both real and personal

          The covenants and  agreements  contained in this Lease shall he deemed
          to be not  only  personal  covenants  and  agreements  hut  also  real
          covenants and  agreements  affecting and running with the Property and
          each and every part of the Property and the Landlord's reversion

11.5      No implied rights

          Nothing  contained in this Lease shall operate  expressly or impliedly
          to confer upon or grant to the Tenant any easement  right or privilege
          other than those expressly hereby granted

11.6      Freedom of Landlord to deal with other property

          Nothing herein  contained or implied shall give the Tenant the benefit
          of or the right to  enforce  or to have  enforced  or to  prevent  the
          release or modification of any covenant agreement or condition entered
          into  by any  purchaser  from  or by any  lessee  or  occupier  of the
          Landlord in respect of property not leased by this Lease

11.7      Exclusion of representations and warranties

          The Tenant  acknowledges  that this Lease has not been entered into in
          reliance wholly or partly upon any statement or representation made by
          or on behalf of the Landlord  save in so far as any such  statement or
          representation  is  expressly  set out in this deed and in  particular
          (but not by way of limitation):

          (a)  the Landlord makes no representation express or implied and gives
               no warranty as to the fitness of the Property or any parts of the
               Estate for the  purpose or  purposes  for which the Tenant or any
               Undertenant intend the same to be used or for any other purpose

          (b)  notwithstanding  the  provisions  as  to  user  of  the  Property
               contained in this Lease the  Landlord  does not thereby or in any
               way give or make  nor has  given  or made at any  other  time any
               representation  or  warranty  that any such user is

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               or will be or will remain a permitted  user within the provisions
               of the Planning Acts or any other relevant  Legislation nor shall
               any consent  which the Landlord may give to any change of user be
               taken as including any such  representation  or warranty and that
               notwithstanding that any such user is not a permitted user within
               such  provisions as aforesaid the Tenant shall remain fully bound
               and  liable  to the  Landlord  in  respect  oil  the  obligations
               undertaken  by the  Tenant by virtue of this  Lease  without  any
               compensation recompense or relief of any kind whatsoever

11.8      Recovery of sums payable by the Tenant

          The  Landlord  shall be  entitled  to such  remedies  and to take such
          actions  for the  recovery of all monies  payable by the Tenant  under
          this Lease in all respects as if all such monies were  expressed to be
          rent or payable as rent (whether or not such is the case)

11.9      Deed contains all agreed terms

          This deed  contains  the whole  agreement  as at the date of this deed
          between  the  parties  to this deed  relating  to the  letting  of the
          Property and supersedes  all previous  agreements (if any) between the
          parties to this deed relating to such letting

11.10     Perpetuity Period

          The  perpetuity  period  applicable  to this  Lease  is  eighty  years
          beginning  on the Term  Commencement  Date and  whenever in this Lease
          either the Landlord or the Tenant is granted a future interest it must
          vest  within  that  period  and if it has  not it  will  he  void  for
          remoteness

11.11     English Law

          The  provisions of this Lease shall be governed by English Law and all
          of its parties  submit to the  exclusive  jurisdiction  of the English
          Courts

12.       Notices

12.1      A notice to be served  under or  pursuant to this Lease shall he valid
          if (and only if) the  provisions  hereinafter  contained  are complied
          with in respect of such notice or

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          alternatively  the  party to whom  such  notice  is  addressed  or its
          authorised agent acknowledges receipt in writing

12.2      All  notices to be served  under or  pursuant  to this Lease  shall be
          served in  accordance  with the  regulations  as to service of notices
          contained in Section 196 of the Law of Property Act 1925 save that any
          notice to be served  under or pursuant to this Lease on a company with
          a  registered  office in the  United  Kingdom  shall be served at such
          registered office

12.3      Any notice to be served  under or pursuant to this Lease may he served
          in any of the following manners:

          (a)  by personal  delivery (in which case  service  shall he deemed to
               have been effected at the time of delivery) or

          (b)  by prepaid first class recorded delivery post from any address in
               the United Kingdom (in which case service shall be deemed to have
               been effected at the expiration of forty-eight hours)

          (c)  by  facsimile  or  telemessage  (in which case  service  shall be
               deemed  to have  been  effected  at the  time of  arrival  at the
               address of the addressee of such notice)

12.4      In proving  service of any notice to be served  under or  pursuant  to
          this Lease it shall be sufficient to prove that personal  delivery was
          made  or  that  the  envelope  containing  such  notice  was  properly
          addressed and delivered into the custody of the postal  authorities as
          a prepaid  first  class  recorded  delivery or that the  facsimile  or
          telemessage giving such notice was properly addressed  transmitted and
          received

12.5      If the party to whom any notice to he served under or pursuant to this
          Lease shall consist of more than one person the service of notice upon
          one of such persons shall he service upon all of them

13.       Exclusion of Security of Tenure

13.1      The Tenant hereby confirms that before the date of this Lease:

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          (a)  The Landlord served on the Tenant a notice dated 2004 in relation
               to the  tenancy  created by this Lease  ("the  Notice") in a form
               complying with the  requirements  of Schedule 1 to the Regulatory
               Reform (Business  Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003 ("the
               Order")

          (b)  The Tenant or a person duly  authorised by the Tenant in relation
               to the Notice made a statutory  declaration  ("the  Declaration")
               dated 2004 in a form complying with the  requirements of Schedule
               2 of the Order

13.2      The Tenant further  confirms that where the  Declaration was made by a
          person other than the Tenant the declarant was duly  authorised by the
          Tenant to make the Declaration on the Tenant's behalf

13.3      The  Landlord and the Tenant  confirm  that there is no Agreement  for
          Lease to which this Lease gives effect

13.4      The Landlord and Tenant agree to exclude the provisions of sections 24
          to 28  (inclusive)  of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 in relation to
          the tenancy created by this Lease

IN WITNESS  whereof the parties to this deed have  executed this Lease as a deed
the day and year first before written

                                   SCHEDULE 1

                             Part One - The Property

ALL THAT property  comprising  that piece of land situate at the Estate which is
shown edged red on Plan B TOGETHER  WITH the  building or buildings on such land
or on part of such  land  and  shortly  known as  Timet  Number 2 Plant  The Hub
Birmingham  and TOGETHER WITH the Landlord's  fixtures  fittings and plant in or
upon such property  (herein called "the Landlord's  Fixtures and Fittings") (all
which property and the Landlord's  Fixtures and Fittings and all alterations and
additions  to the  said  property  and to any  to the  Landlord's  Fixtures  and
Fittings are herein called "the Property")

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                     Part Two - Rights granted to the Tenant

1.        There are granted to the Tenant the following  rights  throughout  the
          Term (but in common with the Landlord and all other  persons from time
          to time entitled thereto or authorised by the Landlord):

1.1       subject  to the  provisions  of  paragraph  1 of  Part  Three  of this
          Schedule  the right of passage and running oil gas  electricity  water
          soil and other  matter or services  from and to the  Property  through
          such of the  Conducting  Media as serve the  Property and head into or
          are in  under or upon the  remainder  of the  whole or any part of the
          Estate

1.2       the right of support and protection to the Property from the adjoining
          land of the Landlord comprised within the Estate

1.3       a right of way at all times  and for all  purposes  permitted  by this
          Lease with or without  vehicles  over the Estate Roads to and from the
          Property the Car Parking  Spaces and any Service Areas BUT so that and
          PROVIDED  THAT there shall be  designated as "the Estate Roads" at all
          times during the Term such road or roads upon or leading to the Estate
          as shall be  reasonably  necessary  to  afford  means of access to and
          egress from the Property the Car Parking  Spaces and the Service Areas
          with or without  vehicles the Landlord and persons  authorised  by the
          Landlord  shall  have the  right to close  add to or alter any road or
          roads upon or leading to the Estate and any vehicular  route or routes
          of access to and egress from the Property  the Car Parking  Spaces and
          any Service Areas

1.4       a right of way upon foot at all times and for all  purposes  permitted
          by this Lease to and from the Property the Car Parking  Spaces and any
          Service Areas over the Estate  Footpaths BUT so that and PROVIDED THAT
          there  shall be  designated  as "the  Estate  Footpaths"  at all times
          during the Term such footpaths and pedestrian  ways upon or leading to
          the Estate as shall be reasonably  necessary to afford means of access
          to and egress from the Property the Car Parking Spaces and the Service
          Areas the Landlord and persons  authorised by the Landlord  shall have
          the right to close add to or alter any  footpaths or  pedestrian  ways
          upon or leading to the Landlord's  Estate and any pedestrian  route or
          routes of access  to and  egress  from the  Property  the Car  Parking
          Spaces and any Service Areas

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2.        There are granted to the Tenant the following rights:

2.1       the  non-exclusive  right to park  vehicles  being motor cars or other
          vehicles of no greater  weight or size than normal motor cars upon the
          Car Parking Spaces

2.2       the exclusive  right to load and unload  commercial  vehicles upon any
          Service  Areas which may from time to time be made  available  for the
          exclusive use of the Property in connection with the activity  carried
          on upon the Property

            Part Three - Rights Excepted and Reserved to the Landlord

There are excepted and reserved  throughout  the Term (but where  appropriate in
common with the Tenant any  Undertenant  and their  respective  agents  servants
invitees and licensees):

1.        The right for the Landlord and persons  authorised by the Landlord and
          their respective  agents and (in each case) with or without workmen at
          all  reasonable  times during the Term (and at any time in the case of
          emergency)  to)  enter  and  remain  upon the whole or any part of the
          Property  having given  forty-eight  hours prior written notice to the
          Tenant  (except in case of  emergency)  for the  purpose of  executing
          repairs  additions or alterations to any Neighbouring  Property or for
          making  alterations  or additions to  repairing  maintaining  renewing
          connecting or cleansing any Conducting Media now or at any time during
          the Term  serving or in under or over the Property  PROVIDED  THAT the
          Landlord or other person entering the Property  pursuant to the rights
          reserved  by this  paragraph  1 shall  cause as  little  damage  as is
          reasonably  practicable  to the  Property  and make  good so far as is
          reasonably  practicable  all  damage so  caused as soon as  reasonably
          practicable  and take all reasonable  steps to minimise  disruption to
          the conduct of the activity carried on upon the Property

2.        To the  Landlord  and all persons  authorised  by the Landlord and all
          others who may from time to time be  entitled  such right the right to
          the free passage and running of water soil gas  electricity  and other
          matter or  services  to and from any other part or parts of the Estate
          or any Neighbouring Property in and through the Conducting Media in on
          under or over the Property or which may within the Term be in on under
          or over the Property

3.        The right for the Landlord and all persons  authorised by the Landlord
          to use the Property or any part or parts of the Property as a means of
          escape in case of fire or other emergency

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4.        All rights of support light or air and other  easements  privileges or
          similar  rights now or hereafter  capable of being used or enjoyed for
          the benefit of any Neighbouring Property

5.        The right for the Landlord and all persons  authorised by the Landlord
          and their  respective  agents at all reasonable times (and at any time
          in case of emergency)  with or without workmen on giving not less than
          forty-eight  hours' prior notice  (except in the case of emergency) to
          the Tenant to enter and remain  upon the  Property  for the purpose of
          enabling the Landlord to comply with its obligations contained in this
          Lease  or to  measure  the  Property  or to  make a  valuation  of the
          Property or for any other reasonable purpose

6.        The right for the  Landlord  to erect and keep and  maintain  upon the
          Property  such signs in  connection  with  safety or  security  as the
          Landlord may from time to time consider  appropriate  and to place and
          keep and  maintain  within or upon the  Property  such  fire  alarm or
          Security  System or systems as the Landlord may from time to time deem
          necessary  including  (but without  prejudice to the generality of the
          foregoing)  security  cameras (but the foregoing  shall not imply that
          there shall be any obligation on the part of the Landlord to do so)

7.        The right for the Landlord and persons  authorised  by the Landlord at
          any time or times  during the Term to pull down alter erect or rebuild
          or otherwise deal with any Neighbouring  Property to any extent and in
          any manner desired and to make any  excavations in the Property and to
          undermine underpin shore-up and build into the Property or any part of
          the  Property in such manner as the  Landlord  may think fit or permit
          (PROVIDED  THAT  at all  times  proper  support  for the  Property  is
          preserved)  and full right and  liberty for the  Landlord  and persons
          authorised by the Landlord upon giving to the Tenant  reasonable prior
          notice to enter  into and upon the  Property  for the  purpose of such
          undermining underpinning shoring-up or building into or for such other
          purpose as  mentioned  and to use any  Neighbouring  Property  for any
          purpose  desired  notwithstanding  that the access of light and air to
          the  Property or any part of the Property or any  easements  rights or
          amenities  of any kind for the time being  appertaining  to or enjoyed
          with  the  Property  or any  part  of  the  Property  may  be  thereby
          obstructed  or interfered  with or that the Tenant might  otherwise be
          entitled on any ground to object and so that any light or air or other
          easements  rights or  amenities at any time enjoyed in respect tub the
          Property or any part of the Property which might  otherwise  interfere
          with

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          the rights of the  Landlord or of any  neighbouring  owner or occupier
          shall be deemed to have been and to be enjoyed  by consent  and not as
          of right  PROVIDED  THAT the  Landlord or other  person  entering  the
          Property  pursuant to the rights  reserved  by this  paragraph 7 shall
          cause as little  damage as is reasonably  practicable  to the Properly
          and make good so far as is reasonably practicable all damage so caused
          as soon as reasonably  practicable  and take all  reasonable  steps to
          minimise the disruption  caused thereby to the conduct of the activity
          carried on upon the Property

8.        The right for the  Landlord at any time or times to close  temporarily
          for works of repair or any other  necessary  purposes  any area (other
          than the Property) the use of which is available to the Tenant

                       Part Four - The Title Encumbrances

All those matters mentioned as referred to in the Property and Charges Registers
at the Land  Registry  under Title Number  WM790365  insofar as such matters are
subsisting  or capable of taking  effect and affect the whole or any part of the
Property

                                   SCHEDULE 2

                           Services and Service Charge

1.        In this  Schedule the following  expressions  shall have the following
          meanings:

Accounting          Period:   means  a  period   of  one  year   ending  on  the
                    Thirty-first  day of  December  in any  year or  such  other
                    period as the Landlord may in its absolute  discretion  from
                    time to time  determine  (but any such  period  shall not be
                    longer than fifteen  months) being in each case a period the
                    whole or part of which  falls  during the Term and also upon
                    or after the Service Charge Commencement Date

Additional Expenses: has the meaning given to it by paragraph 3 of this Schedule

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the Adjoining Land
Instruments:        means the  instruments  by which  certain land  adjoining or
                    neighbouring the Estate has been dealt with as follows:

                    a lease  dated 20  February  1995 and made  between  Holford
                    Estates  Limited (1) IMI Kynoch  Limited  (2) and  Hamastead
                    Limited (3)

                    a lease dated 9 April 1997 and made between  Holford Estates
                    Limited (1) IMI Kynoch Limited (2) and Hamastead Limited (3)

                    a  transfer  dated 6 March  1998  and made  between  Holford
                    Estates  Limited (1) IMI Kynoch Limited (2) and Severn Trent
                    Property Limited (3)

                    a transfer  dated 11  September  1998 made  between  Holford
                    Estates Limited (1) and Wilson Bowden Properties Limited (2)

                    a transfer  dated 2 October  2000 and made  between  Holford
                    Estates Limited (1) and Wilson Bowden Properties Limited (2)

                    and where applicable any of them

Lettable Part:      means any  accommodation in the Estate from time to time let
                    or occupied or intended for letting or occupation to or by a
                    single tenant or occupier but  excluding  any  accommodation
                    occupied in  connection  with the  management  of the Estate
                    (and "Lettable Parts" shall be construed accordingly)

the Service Charge: has the meaning as defined by paragraph 6 of this Schedule

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the Services:       has the meaning as defined by paragraph 2 of this Schedule

the Services Costs: has the meaning as defined by paragraph 4 of this Schedule

2.        The Services

          In this Lease the expression "the Services" means:

2.1       maintaining  repairing  renewing replacing or improving and keeping in
          sufficient  repair and condition  (including as often as necessary the
          periodic inspecting examining and overhauling) of the Common Parts and
          providing  replacing  repairing renewing improving and maintaining any
          appliances  and equipment  used in the repair and  maintenance  of the
          Common Parts

2.2       cleaning and lighting the Common Parts

2.3       maintaining any landscape features in the Common Parts

2.4       maintaining  repairing cleansing emptying draining and renewing all of
          the  Conducting  Media serving the Estate except those that are within
          and solely serve the Property or any Lettable Part

2.5       collecting  and  disposing of refuse from the Estate and the provision
          repair   maintenance  and  renewal  of  plant  or  equipment  for  the
          collection treatment packaging or disposal of refuse

2.6       providing such fire alarms and such security systems and installations
          (including  (but not by way of  limitation)  security  cameras  if the
          Landlord  shall so  elect)  and  employing  such  safety  security  or
          supervisory  personnel as the Landlord may in its discretion  elect to
          provide in respect of the Estate

2.7       taking  such steps as may be  necessary  for the  control of pests and
          vermin  and any other  steps  necessary  to  safeguard  the health and
          safety of persons using the Estate

2.8       effecting insurance against third party employers and public liability
          in respect of the Common Parts

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2.9       effecting  such  further  insurances  as the Landlord  shall  consider
          necessary or expedient in respect of the Common Parts

2.10      carrying out such other works and providing such other services as the
          Landlord  shall  reasonably  consider  ought  to be  carried  out  and
          provided  for the benefit of the Estate or for the proper  maintenance
          and servicing of any part or parts of the Estate

3.        Additional Expenses

          In this Lease the expression  "Additional  Expenses" means each of the
          following incurred by the Landlord:

3.1       the reasonable fees and expenses properly incurred of:

          (a)  all  surveyors  managing  agents  (whether or not the  Landlord's
               Surveyor) and  accountants  in connection  with the management of
               the Estate and the  preparation  and audit of the Service  Charge
               payable by the  Tenant and other  tenants  and  occupiers  of the
               Estate

          (b)  any  individual  firm or  company  employed  or  retained  by the
               Landlord to perform (or in connection with) any of the Services

          (c)  the  Landlord  or any company in the  Landlord's  Group which may
               perform any of the functions or duties  referred to in paragraphs
               3.1(a) to 3.1(c) (inclusive) of this Schedule

3.2       the  reasonable  cost  of  employing  (whether  by  the  Landlord  the
          Landlord's  Surveyor or any other  individual  firm or  company)  such
          staff  as  the  Landlord  may  acting  reasonably  deem  necessary  or
          desirable  for  the  performance  or  the  better  performance  of the
          Services and the other  functions and duties  referred to in paragraph
          3.1 of this Schedule and all other reasonable  incidental  expenditure
          in  relation  to  such  employment   including  (but  not  by  way  of
          limitation)  insurance pension and welfare contributions any provision
          of uniforms and working clothing transport  facilities and benefits in
          kind and the provision of vehicles tools appliances cleaning and other
          materials  fixtures  fittings  and  other  equipment  for  the  proper
          performance of their duties

3.3       the  amount  which  the  Landlord  shall  be  called  upon to pay as a
          contribution  towards  the  expense  of making  repairing  maintaining
          rebuilding and cleansing any ways roads pavements  Conducting Media or
          other things which may belong or be used for the Estate or any part of
          it  exclusively  or in common  with other  neighbouring  or  adjoining
          property  whether under the terms of the Adjoining Land Instruments or
          otherwise

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3.4       the reasonable cost of taking all steps deemed  desirable or expedient
          by the Landlord for complying with making  representations  against or
          otherwise   contesting   the  incidence  of  the   provisions  of  any
          Legislation  affecting  the  Estate  or any part of it for  which  any
          tenant  or  occupier  of  any  Lettable   Part  is  not  directly  and
          exclusively

3.5       the  reasonable  cost to the Landlord of abating a nuisance in respect
          of the  Estate  or any  part  of it  insofar  as the  same  is not the
          liability of any tenant or occupier of any Lettable Part

3.6       all rates and other  outgoings  assessed  charged or  imposed  upon or
          payable in respect of the Common Parts  and/or any area or  management
          offices or other  building or part of any building  upon the Estate or
          upon any  adjoining or nearby  property used or occupied in connection
          with the  management  of the  Estate  and there  shall be  treated  as
          expenditure  by the Landlord for the purposes of this  Schedule a fair
          notional rent accruing from day to day as determined by the Landlord's
          Surveyor for such management offices or other building or part of such
          building as is used or occupied in connection  with the  management of
          the Estate

3.7       the expense of  supplying  to the tenants and  occupiers of the Estate
          any regulations relating to the Estate

3.8       the cost  including  interest and bank charges of borrowing to finance
          the Services Costs and the Additional Expenses

3.9       the proper costs where these cannot be recovered from another party of
          enforcing  any claim or taking or defending any  proceedings  that the
          Landlord  may at its  discretion  take or  defend in  relation  to the
          Estate  including  (for  example)  against   contractors   consultants
          architects consulting engineers surveyors or other employed or engaged
          in connection with the Services and/or to establish preserve or defend
          any  rights  amenities  or  facilities  used or  enjoyed by tenants or
          occupiers  of the  Estate or to which they may be  entitled  and/or to
          recover arrears of rent service charge or other payments from a tenant
          or other occupier of any part of the Estate

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3.10      any other sums properly  incurred by the Landlord in  connection  with
          the Estate

          PROVIDED  THAT (for the  avoidance  of  doubt)  nothing  contained  in
          paragraphs  3.1 or 3.2 of this  Schedule  shall either impose upon the
          Landlord any obligation to carry out any works or provide any services
          beyond the matters set out in paragraph 2 of this Schedule

4.        Service Costs

          In this Schedule "the Service  Costs" of any  Accounting  Period means
          all the  reasonable  costs  expenses  overheads  payments  charges and
          outgoings  (together with Value Added Tax where  applicable save where
          the Landlord is able to recover the same as an input)  reasonably  and
          properly  incurred by or on behalf of the Landlord in or in respect of
          that Accounting  Period in relation to the Services and the Additional
          Expenses of that Accounting Period

5.        Performance of Services

          The  Landlord  shall at all times  during the Term  carry out  provide
          manage and operate or procure the provision  management  and operation
          of the  Services  (save to the  extent  that they are  properly  to be
          undertaken  by  a  third  party   pursuant  to  the   Adjoining   Land
          Instruments)  in an  efficient  manner  and  in  accordance  with  the
          principles  of good  estate  management  and will  use all  reasonable
          endeavours to ensure that any third party bound by the Adjoining  Land
          Instruments   fulfils  their   obligations   in  the  Adjoining   Land
          Instruments as to the provision of the Services but:

5.1       in performing  such  obligations the Landlord shall be entitled in its
          discretion to employ managing agents contractors or such other persons
          as the Landlord may from time to time think fit

5.2       the  Landlord  shall  not  be  responsible  for  any  breach  of  such
          obligations  due  to  any  cause  or  circumstances   not  within  the
          Landlord's  reasonable  control or to the extent that the  Landlord is
          prevented  from  performing  such  obligations  by  Insured  Risks  or
          Uninsured Risks but the Landlord shall take all  practicable  steps to
          remedy such breach as soon as is  reasonably  practicable  after being
          notified of the breach by the Tenant

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5.3       the  Landlord may in its  absolute  discretion  withhold add to extend
          vary or make any alteration in the rendering of the Services or any of
          them  from  time to  time  if the  Landlord  reasonably  considers  it
          desirable to do so in time interest of good estate management

6.        The Service Charge

6.1       The Tenant shall as from the Service Charge  Commencement  Date pay to
          the  Landlord by way of service  charge  (herein  called "the  Service
          Charge") a  contribution  towards the Service Costs in respect of each
          Accounting Period during the Term being that proportion of the Service
          Costs in the  Accounting  Period to which the Service  Charge  relates
          which is determined  by the  Landlord's  Surveyor as being  reasonable
          (and in the case of the first and last  Accounting  Periods  with such
          allowance as the Landlord's  Surveyor shall determine to be reasonably
          appropriate)

6.2       Before or as soon as reasonably practicable after time commencement of
          each Accounting  Period (or in the case of the first Accounting Period
          the Service Charge  Commencement  Date) the Landlord's  Surveyor shall
          make an  estimate  of the  Service  Charge  payable  by the  Tenant in
          respect  of  such  Accounting  Period  and  shall  notify  the  Tenant
          accordingly  and the  estimate  of the  Landlord's  Surveyor  shall he
          conclusive and final

6.3       The Tenant shall pay to the Landlord the Service  Charge  attributable
          to each Accounting Period as follows:

          (a)  the amount  estimated by the Landlord's  Surveyor as described in
               clause 6.2 shall he  payable in equal  amounts on the last day of
               each calendar month during the relevant Accounting Period but:

               (i)  the first  such  instalment  payable on the  Service  Charge
                    Commencement  Date will be an apportioned  amount determined
                    by  the   Landlord's   Surveyor   if  the   Service   Charge
                    Commencement Date is not the end of a calendar month and

               (ii) the  monthly  amounts  payable  during the final  Accounting
                    Period  may be  adjusted  by such  amount as the  Landlord's
                    Surveyor  shall  determine  to be  reasonable  to take  into
                    account of the fact that the Lease  Termination  Date may be
                    earlier  than time final day of such  Accounting  Period (if
                    such is in fact the case)

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          (b)  if any sum payable by the Tenant pursuant to paragraph  6.3(a) of
               this Schedule shall not have been ascertained as at the date when
               such sum is expressed to be payable because the relevant estimate
               by the  Landlord's  Surveyor of the Service Charge payable by the
               Tenant has not then been  notified to the Tenant the Tenant shall
               within fourteen days after demand by the Landlord  (demand not to
               be made prior to the  relevant  estimate  being  notified  to the
               Tenant) pay to the Landlord such sum as would otherwise then have
               been payable

          (c)  if at any time during any Accounting  Period it becomes  apparent
               that the Service Charge payable by the Tenant for such Accounting
               Period will exceed or is likely to exceed the payments made or to
               be made by the  Tenant  under the  foregoing  provisions  of this
               paragraph  6.3 the  Landlord  shall be  entitled to call upon the
               Tenant to increase  each of the  remaining  payments  due in that
               Accounting Period by such amount as the Landlord's Surveyor shall
               certify in a notice to the Tenant to be responsible

          (d)  upon the  service by the  Landlord on the Tenant of an account as
               referred to in paragraph 7 of this  Schedule the Tenant shall pay
               to the Landlord within fourteen days after demand by the Landlord
               or there  shall be allowed by the  Landlord to the Tenant (as the
               case may be) the balance by which the Service  Charge  payable by
               the Tenant  exceeds or falls  short of the total sums paid by the
               Tenant to the Landlord pursuant to paragraphs 6.3(a) to 6.3(c) of
               this  Schedule  for the  Accounting  Period to which such account
               relates  and  the  provisions  of  this  paragraph  6.3(d)  shall
               continue to apply  notwithstanding the earlier expiry of the Term
               but only in respect of the period down to such expiry

7.        Accounting

7.1       As soon as reasonably practicable after time expiry of each Accounting
          Period the Landlord will prepare and supply to the Tenant an account:

          (a)  showing the Service Costs for the relevant Accounting Period

          (b)  containing a fair summary of the items referred to in it and

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          (c)  including a  certificate  by the  Landlord of the Service  Charge
               payable by the Tenant such Accounting Period

7.2       Save  in the  case  of  manifest  error  any  account  referred  to in
          paragraph  7.1.of this Schedule  will be  conclusive  evidence for the
          purposes of this Lease

                                   SCHEDULE 3

               Covenants and Agreements by a Surety of an Assignee

1.        The Surety covenants with the Landlord as a primary obligation:

1.1       that the Tenant or the Surety  shall at all times during the Term duly
          perform and observe all the covenants  conditions and other provisions
          on the part of the Tenant to be observed  and  performed in this Lease
          and shall indemnify the Landlord  against all Losses  sustained by the
          Landlord in any way directly or indirectly arising out of or resulting
          from any default by the Tenant in the  performance  and  observance of
          any such covenants conditions and other provisions

1.2       not to claim in any liquidation bankruptcy administration receivership
          composition  or  arrangement  of the  Tenant in  competition  with the
          Landlord and to remit to the  Landlord  the proceeds of all  judgments
          and all  distributions  it may receive from any liquidator  trustee in
          bankruptcy administrator  administrative receiver or supervisor of the
          Tenant to the extent any sums shall be payable to the  Landlord by the
          Tenant or the Surety

1.3       if any of the  following  events  shall  occur (any such  event  which
          occurs  being herein  called a "Relevant  Event" and the date on which
          any such event occurs being herein called "the Relevant Event Date"):

          (a)  the Tenant (being a Company)  shall go into  liquidation  and the
               Liquidator shall disclaim this Lease or

          (b)  the Tenant (being a Company) shall cease to exist or

          (c)  the Tenant (being an  individual)  shall become  bankrupt and the
               Trustee in bankruptcy shall disclaim this Lease or

          (d)  the Tenant (being an individual) shall die or

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          (e)  this Lease shall be forfeited under the provisions of this Lease

          then the Surety will take from the Landlord but only if so required by
          the  Landlord by written  notice to the Surety a Lease of the Property
          for a term equal to the residue of the  Contractual  Term unexpired at
          the Relevant Event Date at the same several rents payable  immediately
          prior to time  Relevant  Event Date and subject to the like  covenants
          and conditions (including the same dates and provisions for the review
          of rent as are  applicable  to this  Lease) as are  contained  in this
          Lease and the Surety  shall  execute  and  deliver  to the  Landlord a
          counterpart of such Lease PROVIDED  ALWAYS that the Landlord shall not
          serve such written notice upon the Tenant later than six months after:

               (i)  (where time Relevant Event is one of the events described in
                    sub-paragraphs   1.3(a)  to  1.3(d)   (inclusive)   of  this
                    paragraph  1.3) the Surety shall have served  written notice
                    upon the  Landlord  (here  meaning  the person or persons at
                    such  time  entitled  to  the  immediate  reversion  of  the
                    Property  expectant on the expiry of the Term)  stating that
                    the Relevant Event has occurred and specifying time Relevant
                    Event and stating that the provisions hereinbefore contained
                    in this paragraph 1.3 apply

               (ii) (where  the  Relevant  Event  is  the  event   described  in
                    sub-paragraph  1.3(e) of this  paragraph  1.3) the  Relevant
                    Event Date

          AND such new Lease and the  counterpart  thereof  shall be prepared by
          the  Landlord  and all  reasonable  costs and legal  charges and stamp
          duties  incurred  in  respect  thereof  and the  notices  hereinbefore
          referred to shall be borne by the Surety

1.4       if a Relevant  Event  occurs and the  Landlord  shall not  require the
          Surety to take a lease the Surety shall  nevertheless  upon demand pay
          to the  Landlord  the rents and all other  sums that  would  have been
          payable  under this Lease if the  Relevant  Event had not  occurred in
          respect of the period  from and  including  time  Relevant  Event Date
          until the last date upon which the Landlord shall be entitled to serve
          a written  notice upon time Surety  requiring the Surety to take a new
          Lease of the Property or until the Landlord shall have granted a lease
          of the Property to a third party (whichever shall first occur)

2.        The Surety agrees that:

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2.1       it is jointly and severally  liable with the Tenant (whether before or
          after the occurrence out any Relevant Event) for the fulfilment of all
          the Tenant's  covenants  conditions and other provisions  contained in
          this Lease until and  including  the last day upon which the  Landlord
          shall he entitled to serve a written  notice upon the Surety  pursuant
          to paragraph 1.3 of this  Schedule  requiring the Surety to take a new
          lease of the  Property  and the  Landlord  in the  enforcement  of its
          rights may  proceed  against  the Surety as if the Surety was named as
          the Tenant in this Lease but (subject to and without  prejudice to the
          provisions  of  paragraphs  1.3 and 1.4 of this  Schedule)  the Surety
          shall  have no greater  liability  under this Lease than it would have
          had if the Surety had been named as time Tenant in this Lease

2.2       it waives any right to require  the  Landlord  to proceed  against the
          Tenant  or to  pursue  any  other  remedy  of any  kind  which  may be
          available to the Landlord before proceeding against the Surety

2.3       none of the  following  (or any  combination  of them)  shall  release
          determine  discharge  or in any way lessen or affect the  liability of
          the Surety as principal debtor under this Lease or otherwise prejudice
          or  affect  the  liability  of the  Surety  to  accept a new  Lease in
          accordance with the provisions of this Schedule:

          (a)  any neglect delay or indulgence or extension of time given by the
               Landlord  in  enforcing  payment  of rents or any other  sums due
               under this Lease or in enforcing the performance or observance of
               any of the  Tenant's  covenants  conditions  or other  provisions
               contained in this Lease

          (b)  any  refusal by the  Landlord  to accept  rent  tendered by or on
               behalf of the Tenant following a breach of covenant by the Tenant

          (c)  any variation of the terms of this Lease  (including  any reviews
               of the rent  payable  under  this  Lease or the  transfer  of the
               Landlord's reversion

          (d)  any legal limitation or any immunity  disability or incapacity of
               the Tenant  (whether  or not known to the  Landlord)  or the fact
               that any dealings  with the Landlord by the Tenant may be outside
               or in excess of the powers of the Tenant (whether or not known to
               the Landlord)

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          (e)  any other act  omission  matter or thing of any kind by virtue of
               which (but for this  provision)  the Surety  would be  exonerated
               either  wholly or in part (other than a release  under seal given
               by the Landlord)

2.4       the benefit of the covenants and agreements contained in this Schedule
          shall subsist for the benefit of the Landlord and the  successors  and
          assigns of the  Landlord's  reversion  without the  necessity  for any
          assignment of it

2.5       where the Surety  comprises  more than one person such  covenants  and
          agreements shall have been entered into) jointly and severally by such
          persons

2.6       the  provisions of this Schedule  shall he governed by English Law and
          the Surety agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts

                                   SCHEDULE 4

          Covenants  and  agreements  by a surety or  sureties  in respect of an
          underlease

1.        In this Schedule:

the Intermediate
Landlord:           means "the Tenant" within time meaning of this Lease

the Licence
to Underlet:        means the Licence in which the Landlord grants to the Tenant
                    licence  to  grant  an  underlease  of the  Property  to the
                    Undertenant

the Superior
Landlord:           means "the Landlord" within the meaning of this Lease

the Underlease:     means the  underlease  to be  granted  by the  Tenant to the
                    Undertenant and

the Undertenant:    means the proposed undertenant

2.        The  Surety  covenants  within  the  Superior  Landlord  as a  primary
          obligation:

2.1       that the Undertenant or the Surety shall at all times duly perform and
          observe all the covenants  conditions and other provisions on the part
          of the  Undertenant  to be observed

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          and  performed  in the Licence to  Underlet  and shall  indemnify  the
          Superior  Landlord  against  all  Losses  sustained  by  the  Superior
          Landlord in any way directly or indirectly arising out of or resulting
          from any default by the  Undertenant in the performance and observance
          of any such covenants conditions and other provisions

2.2       not to claim in any liquidation bankruptcy administration receivership
          composition or arrangement  of the  Undertenant in competition  within
          the  Superior  Landlord  and to remit  to the  Superior  Landlord  the
          proceeds of all  judgments and all  distributions  it may receive from
          any  liquidator  trustee in  bankruptcy  administrator  administrative
          receiver or  supervisor  of the Tenant to the extent any sums shall he
          payable to the Superior Landlord by the Undertenant

3.        The Surety agrees that:

3.1       It is  jointly  and  severally  liable  with the  Undertenant  for the
          fulfilment  of all the  Undertenants  covenants  conditions  and other
          provisions contained in the Licence to Underlet

3.2       it waives  any right to  require  the  Superior  Landlord  to  proceed
          against  the  Undertenant  or to pursue  any other  remedy of any kind
          which may be  available  to the Superior  Landlord  before  proceeding
          against the Surety

3.3       none of the  following  (or any  combination  of them)  shall  release
          determine  discharge  or in any way lessen or affect the  liability of
          the Surety as principal debtor to the Superior Landlord:

          (a)  any neglect delay or indulgence or extension of time given by the
               Superior  Landlord in enforcing the  performance or observance of
               any of the Undertenant's covenants conditions or other provisions
               contained in the Licence to Underlet

          (b)  any  variation  of the  terms of the  Underlease  (including  any
               reviews of the rent payable under the Underlease)

          (c)  any legal limitation or any immunity  disability or incapacity of
               the Undertenant (whether or not known to the Superior Landlord or
               the Intermediate Landlord) or the fact that any dealings with the
               Superior Landlord or the Intermediate Landlord by the Undertenant
               may be  outside  or in  excess of the  powers if the  Undertenant
               (whether or not known to the Landlord or the Superior Landlord)

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          (d)  any other act  omission  matter or thing of any kind by virtue of
               which (but for this  provision)  the Surety  would be  exonerated
               either  wholly or in part (other than a release  under seal given
               by time Superior Landlord)

3.4       the benefit of the covenants and agreements contained in this Schedule
          shall  subsist  for  the  benefit  of the  Superior  Landlord  and the
          successors  and  assigns of the  Superior  Landlord's  interest in the
          Property  immediately  expectant  on the  determination  of  the  Term
          without the necessity for any assignment of it

3.5       where the Surety  comprises  more than one person such  covenants  and
          agreements shall have been entered into) jointly and severally by such
          persons

3.6       the  provisions of this Schedule  shall be governed by English Law and
          the Surety agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts








SIGNED as a Deed by                       )
TIMET UK LIMITED acting by a director     )
and its secretary/two directors:                    )


           Director


           Director/Secretary