RNS Number:6991L
Telewest Communications PLC
29 May 2003

Telewest Communications plc ("the Company")

The Company was advised on 28 May 2003 that Microsoft Corporation no longer has
a notifiable interest in shares comprised in the relevant share capital of the
Company for the purposes of Section 198 of the Companies Act 1985, as amended,
by virtue of its sale on 23 May 2003 of the issued and outstanding capital stock
of Microsoft UK Cable, Inc., and Microsoft Cable Partnership Holdings, Inc.,
which together beneficially owned as at the time of sale 636,056,024 ordinary
shares and 60,322,654 limited voting shares in the capital of the Company.


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