11 July 2006                                                                            LSE: AYM 

Issue of Equity - share options exercised

The company today announces that David Lean and Ian Cuthbertson, both directors of the company, have exercised the following options over 700,000 ordinary shares of 1p each:

Director	Price	No. of shares
David Lean	2p	300,000
David Lean	4.13p	200,000
Ian Cuthbertson	5p	200,000

The options which have been exercised were granted between October 1996 and October 2004.

The new ordinary shares to be issued will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares of the company. Application has been made for the shares to be admitted to the Official List and trading is expected to commence on 14 July 2006. Following the allotment of the new ordinary shares the issued share capital of the company will be 138,808,051 shares.

For further details:

Ian Cuthbertson, Finance Director        + (44) 1248 361333

Bill Hooley, Executive Director              + (44) 1492 541981

Cathy Malins / Annabel Leather,
Parkgreen Communications                  + (44) 20 7493 3713