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Business 2 www plc (B2W) Website testing specialist have commissioned the first independent test and ranking of banking websites, following 3rd party requests & the continuing interest in this sector. No commercially sensitive information or operating data will be available to any party other than the company to whom the site(s) belong.

We intend to use our unique and increasingly powerful Sitemorse™ automated site testing software to examine the Banks and Building Societies websites in July.

The sites tested will comprise:

- Banks
Abbey National
Alliance & Leicester
Bank of Scotland
Barclays
Clydesdale
Cooperative
Halifax
HSBC
Lloyds TSB
NatWest
Northern
Northern Rock
Royal Bank of Scotland
Yorkshire

- Building Societies
Bradford & Bingley
Birmingham Midshires
Britannia
Nationwide
Portman
Skipton
Yorkshire

For interest and further comparison against, we will also run tests on the Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority and the British Bankers Association.

The July test will be the first of four quarterly reports (published on the 15th), will be repeated again in October 2002, January and April 2003.

The reports will cost £3,000.00 plus VAT (£3,525.00) each, or £10,000.00 plus VAT for all four ordered in advance and paid for in four equal instalments.

With the report you will also receive four confidential Full Technical Reports on your own site ONLY, with comparisons where applicable with the average of the sites listed above. An outline of what a Full Technical Report contains can be seen on the next page.