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Shareholder Structure

Substantial shareholdings notified to the Company up to 8 April 2008
Group	Number of shares	Percentage of issued shares at date of notification
Harris Associates L.P.	304,120,059	17.83
Capital Group Companies Inc.⁽¹⁾	164,074,935	9.62
Sprucegrove Investment Management Ltd	113,896,205	6.68
Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	90,107,086	5.28
BriTel Fund Trustees Ltd	85,667,185	5.02
Legal & General Investment Management Limited	81,535,937	4.78
Sanderson Asset Management Ltd	71,694,426	4.20
First Pacific Advisors LLC	70,896,000	4.16

(1) Includes interest of Capital International Limited in 110,536,439 of such shares, notified on their behalf by the Capital Group Companies, Inc.

Estimated geographic breakdown of the management of shareholdings at 20 March 2008
North America	53%
UK	36%
Europe	6%
Rest of World (including unknown)	5%

Register analysis at 20 March 2008
Category	Number	Number of shares	Percentage of issued shares
Institutional holders	939	1,671,887,153	98.0
Private shareholders (excluding holdings through nominee accounts)	14,157	31,865,366	1.9
Directors' holdings	11	1,757,947	0.1
Total	15,107	1,705,510,466	100.0