RNS Number:3372P
Hyder PLC
11 August 2000



WPD Limited 
Extension of Proposals and Tender Offer by WPD Limited to Hyder plc and Welsh
Water Utilities Finance plc Bondholders  


 
WPD Limited ("WPDL") hereby announces that the conditional tender offer (the
"Tender Offer") for any and all of the following bonds (the "Bonds"):  
 
     GBP 75 MM Bonds due 2002 
     GBP 200 MM Bonds due 2006 
     GBP 200 MM Bonds due 2016 
     GBP 200 MM Bonds due 2020  
     in each case of Hyder plc 
 
     GBP 100 MM Guaranteed Bonds due 2004 
     GBP 100 MM Guaranteed Bonds due 2014 
     in each case of Welsh Water Utilities Finance plc 
 
is extended through 11:40 AM London Time on 11 August 2000 
 
 
Further Information  
 
The Tender Offer is described in the Notice of Terms of Tender Offer which is
available for collection from the Tender Agent to current bondholders.
Salomon Brothers International Limited ("Schroder Salomon Smith Barney") is
the Tender Co-ordinator for the Tender Offer.  
 
Requests for the Notice of Terms of Tender Offer and related Acceptance
Notice and other relevant information in relation to the tender should be
directed to:  
 
Tender Agent:           Citibank, N.A., Agency and Trust Services  
                        Reference:      WPD Limited Tender Offer  
                        Telephone:      44-20-7508-3867  
                        Fax:           44-20-7508-3866  
 
Requests for all other information in relation to the Tender Offer should be  
directed to:  
 
Exchange Co-ordinator:      Schroder Salomon Smith Barney 
                            Attention:      Liability Management 
                            Telephone:      44-20-7721-3168 or  
                                            44-20-7721-3666 
                            Fax:           44-20-7721-2844  
                            gregory.d.makoff@ssmb.com 
      
DCS Oosthuizen 
Director and Company Secretary  
 
Press Enquiries: 
 
Anthony Cardew          Cardew & Co.               020 7930 0777 
 
 
The distribution of this document in certain jurisdictions may be restricted
by law. Persons into whose possession this document comes are required by
WPDL, Salomon Brothers International Limited (trading as Schroder Salomon
Smith Barney) and Citibank N.A., London office to inform themselves about,
and to observe, any such restrictions.  
The Tender Offer is not made within the United States or to US persons. This
document is not to be transmitted into the United States, to any US person,
or by use of the mails or by any means or instrumentality (including, without
limitation, facsimile transmission, telex and telephone) of interstate or
foreign commerce, or of any facility of a national securities exchange, of
the United States and the Tender Agent will not accept any tender on behalf
of WPDL by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility or from within
the United States. Any Bondholder who holds its Bonds through a custodian in
the United States should contact the Tender Co-ordinator. 
 
Salomon Brothers International Limited (trading as Schroder Salomon Smith
Barney), which is regulated in the United Kingdom by the Securities and
Futures Authority, has approved the contents of this document solely for the
purposes of section 57 of the Financial Services Act 1986. Schroder Salomon
Smith Barney is acting as financial adviser to WPDL in relation to the Hyder
shares offer and the Tender Offer and to no one else and will not regard any
other person as its customer or be responsible to anyone other than WPDL for
providing the protections afforded to customers of Schroder Salomon Smith
Barney or for providing advice in relation to the Hyder shares offer and the
Tender Offer. 
 
The Tender Agent referred to herein makes no representations whatsoever
regarding this document or the Tender Offer. The Tender Agent is the agent of
WPDL and owes no duty to any Bondholder. 
 

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