Active Imaging PLC - Offer Acceptances

RNS No 7447q
ACTIVE IMAGING PLC
15th January 1998


SILVERMINES GROUP PLC ("Silvermines" or "the Company")
Recommended Offers ("the Offers") for

ACTIVE IMAGING plc ("Active Imaging")

As at 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday 14th January 1998
acceptances under the Active Imaging Ordinary Share Offer
had been received as follows:

39,376,938 Ordinary Shares, representing 95.51% of the
issued ordinary share capital of Active Imaging (of which
10,732,062 Ordinary Shares were in respect of persons who
had signed irrevocable undertakings to accept the Active
Imaging Ordinary Share Offer and 12,500 Ordinary Shares
were in respect of parties deemed to be acting in concert
with Active Imaging)

Silvermines has now received acceptances for in excess of
90% of the shares to which the Active Imaging Ordinary
Share Offer relates. The Active Imaging Ordinary Share
Offer will remain open for acceptance until further
notice although Silvermines now intends to implement the
procedure under Section 429 of the Companies Act 1985
("the Act") to acquire compulsorily all of the
outstanding Active Imaging Ordinary Shares. A letter,
together with a statutory notice pursuant to Section 429
of the Act and a further Form of Acceptance, will be
posted to shareholders who have not yet accepted the
Active Imaging Ordinary Share Offer by 23rd January 1998.

Silvermines has now received acceptances in full in
respect of the Active Imaging 'A' Preference Share Offer
and the Active Imaging 'B' Preference Share Offer.

The offer period for the Offers commenced on 24th
November 1997. Save for 9,000 Active Imaging Ordinary
Shares held by Greig Middleton & Co. Limited on behalf of
discretionary clients, neither Silvermines nor any
parties deemed to be acting in concert with it held any
Active Imaging Shares prior to the offer period. During
the offer period, Greig Middleton & Co. Limited acquired
3,500 Active Imaging Ordinary Shares on behalf of
discretionary clients of it. Save as aforesaid, neither
Silvermines nor any parties deemed to be acting in
concert with it has acquired or agreed to acquire any
Active Imaging Shares since the commencement of the offer
period for Active Imaging.


For further information, please contact:

Silvermines Group plc - 01162 222 111
Clem Jansen, Group Managing Director

Square Mile Communications Limited - 0171 583 4567
Tim Jackaman/James Meville-Ross

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