RNS Number:6152U
East Surrey Holdings PLC
26 January 2004


                 East Surrey Holdings PLC ("the Company ")



The Company has today been advised pursuant to Section 198 of the Companies Act
1985 that Zurich Financial Services and its Group no longer has a notifiable
interest in the company's issued share capital.


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