23rd July 2001 REUTERS GROUP PLC THOMAS H. GLOCER SERVICE AGREEMENT [LOGO] FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER CONTENTS CLAUSE PAGE

23rd July 2001

REUTERS GROUP PLC

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SERVICE AGREEMENT

[LOGO] FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS XXXXXXXX

CLAUSE		PAGE

1.	DEFINITIONS	1

2.	DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT	1

3.	ROLE, POWERS AND DUTIES	1

4.	NORMAL PLACE OF WORK	2

5.	HOURS OF WORK	2

6.	SALARY AND BENEFITS	3

7.	EXPENSES	4

8.	OTHER INTERESTS	4

9.	INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS	5

10.	CONFIDENTIALITY	6

11.	TERMINATION	7

	Summary dismissal	7
	Termination by the Company through illness	8
	Termination by the Company without Cause	8
	Termination through loss of directorship	9
	Termination by you without Good Reason	9
	Termination by you with Good Reason	10
	Cessation Compensation	11
	Mitigation	12
	Return of documents	12
	Resignation as a director	12
	Share schemes	12

12.	SUSPENSION	13

13.	CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS	14

	Non-representation	14
	Non-solicitation of employees	14
	Non-solicitation of business	14
	Non-dealing	15
	Non-competition	15
	Extension to other persons	15
	Acknowledgement of reasonableness	15

14.	GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE	16

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15.	WAIVER	16

16.	AMENDMENTS	16

17.	NOTICES	16

18.	OTHER AGREEMENTS	17

19.	GOVERNING LAW	17

20.	WITHHOLDING OR DEDUCTIONS FOR TAX	17

	SCHEDULE 1	18

	OTHER BENEFITS	18

21.	BONUS	18

22.	HOLIDAYS	18

23.	PENSION PLANS	18

24.	LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN	19

25.	MEDICAL/DISABILITY INSURANCE	19

26.	LIFE ASSURANCE	19

27.	COMPANY CAR	19

28.	DIRECTORS’ INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE	19

29.	OTHER BENEFITS	20



SCHEDULE 2		22

COMPETING BUSINESS CONCERNS AS AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT		22

SCHEDULE 3		23

PERMITTED SHAREHOLDINGS AS AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT		23

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AGREEMENT is made on 23rd July 2001

BETWEEN

(1) REUTERS GROUP PLC registered in England with No. 3296375 whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX0X 0XX (the Company); and

(2) XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX of 00 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx XX0 (you).

IT IS AGREED as follows:

DEFINITIONS

1. In this Agreement the following expressions shall have the following meanings:

Board means the board of directors of the Company or a duly constituted committee of the board of directors;

Employment means your employment in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

Group means the Company, any holding company of the Company and any subsidiary of the Company or of any such holding company (with holding company and subsidiary having the meanings given to them by section 736 of the Companies Xxx 0000 of England and Wales). Group Company and Group Companies shall be construed accordingly;

Relevant Year means the three successive periods, 1 January – 31 December 2001, 1 January – 31 December 2002 and 1 January 2002 – 31 December 2003; and

Remuneration Committee means the remuneration committee of the Board.

DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT

2.1 This Agreement will be effective from 1 July 2001 (the Effective Date). Your Employment under this Agreement will continue until terminated in accordance with Clause 11 below (the Employment Period).

2.2 It is acknowledged that your continuous employment for statutory purposes began on 29 September 1993.

ROLE, POWERS AND DUTIES

3.1 From the Effective Date, you will serve the Company as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and executive director of the Company.

3.2 During the Employment Period, you will exercise such powers and perform such duties in relation to the business of the Company and the Group, being duties which are customary, appropriate to and consistent with your status as may reasonably be assigned to you by the Board from time to time. During the Employment Period, you shall report solely and directly to the Board.

3.3 During the Employment Period you will:

(a)

subject to Clause 8.1, devote substantially the whole of your working time, attention and abilities to carrying out your duties under Clauses 3.1 and 3.2;

(b)

comply with the duties imposed on you as a director by law;

(c)

use all reasonable endeavours to promote the interests of the Company and any other Group Company which you may be required to serve under the terms of this Agreement;

(d)

have due regard to the Reuter Trust Principles and to the rights and duties of the Reuter Trustees as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company and in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Reuters Founders Share Company Limited insofar as, by the proper exercise of your powers (and in accordance with your other duties) as director of the Company, the Reuter Trust Principles are capable of being observed by you;

(e)

have due regard to the provisions of the Reuters Code of Conduct (as notified to you from time to time) and, so far as reasonably practicable in the performance of your duties, observe all material provisions of that Code;

(f)

comply with the Reuters Share Dealings Code (as notified to you from time to time);

(g)

have due regard to the provisions of all other material policies which apply to you as an executive employed by a Group Company, as notified to you from time to time; and

(h)

other than absences due to illness or vacation or as otherwise may be required to fulfil your duties hereunder, regularly attend meetings of the Board and of any committees of the Board to which you may be appointed.

NORMAL PLACE OF WORK

4. Your normal place of work is at the Company’s head office in London. You will be required, in the performance of your duties, to travel in the United Kingdom and overseas. However, having given you not less than 90 days’ notice, the Company may reasonably require you to relocate to perform your duties at the offices of another Group Company in New York. In addition, the Company shall reimburse you all relocation expenses in respect of your relocation to New York in a manner which is consistent with the benefits provided in Clause 9 of Schedule 1.

HOURS OF WORK

5. You will work the Company’s normal working hours together with such additional hours as may reasonably be required for the proper performance of your duties.

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SALARY AND BENEFITS

6.1 You will be paid a base salary at the rate set out in a letter to you from the Company of the same date as this Agreement and as confirmed in your annual statement of remuneration and benefits (the Base Salary) and you will also be entitled to the additional remuneration and benefits set out in Schedule 1.

6.2 Your Base Salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments in accordance with the Company’s customary payroll practices for senior executives. If your Base Salary is increased, then such increased Base Salary shall constitute Base Salary for all purposes under this Agreement.

6.3 You are not entitled to any other salary, fees or remuneration as director or employee of the Company or any other Group Company save as provided herein and other than as provided in documentation relating to your directorships of other Group Companies and you must, as the Company directs, either waive your rights to any such salary, fees or remuneration or account for the same to the Company failing which it will be deducted from your salary.

6.4 For the year 2001 the Company has procured the award to you of 565,113 Company shares under the Reuters Discretionary Share Option Plan (the Option Plan) and the award to you of 174,451 Company Shares under the Reuters Long Term Incentive Plan (the Incentive Plan). The Company will procure that in respect of each remaining Relevant Year during your Employment you receive an equity based incentive award with a fair market value of at least US$4,387,500 (comprising an award with a fair market value of at least US$2,325,000 under the Incentive Plan and an award with a fair market value of at least US$2,062,500 under the Option Plan) (such values to be converted into sterling at the prevailing rate on the Effective Date) on terms and conditions no less favourable than those applicable to similar awards made to executive directors of the Company. For the purpose of calculating fair market value under this Clause 6.4, for the calendar year ending 31 December 2001, the fair market value of a notional award of US$1.00 under the Incentive Plan and the Option Plan was US$0.75 and US$0.29 respectively. For future Relevant Years, such market value shall be determined by reference to the same methodology as used to calculate fair market value for the calendar year ending 31 December 2001. Thereafter during the Employment, you will be eligible to receive equity based incentive awards on a basis commensurate with your position as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the level of equity based incentive awards made to the chief executive officers of publicly listed companies comparable in size and industry to the Company, taking into account all relevant circumstances, including without limitation, your performance and the performance of the Company.

6.5 Your Base Salary and benefits will be reviewed annually by the Remuneration Committee no later than in December. Any change in the level of your Base Salary and benefits as a result of the review (which will not be downwards) will be effective from 1 January of the year following the review. Your bonus opportunity as a percentage of salary (with salary calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 1) shall not be reduced below 125% in respect of the financial years 2001-2003 inclusive and shall not be reduced below 150% in respect of subsequent financial years during your Employment and the performance criteria pursuant to which such bonus is based shall not be materially altered to your detriment.

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6.6 During or after the termination of the Employment for whatever reason, the Company may deduct from your pay any undisputed sums outstanding to the Company or to any other Group Company from you including, without limitation, any advance of pay or loans or floats for expenses which would become due upon such termination.

EXPENSES

7. Subject to the Company’s policies on executive directors’ expenses and executive directors’ spouse expenses (as notified to you from time to time), the Company will reimburse to you all reasonable travelling, hotel and other out-of-pocket expenses (including first class travel expenses) properly incurred by you and your spouse in the execution of the duties of the Employment against production of valid receipts and properly completed expense reports.

OTHER INTERESTS

8.1 During the Employment Period you will be entitled to accept appointments as a non-executive director of companies other than a Group Company subject to:

(a)

the prior written consent of the Chairman of the Company (such consent to be confirmed by the Board and it being understood and agreed that you currently serve as a non-executive director of certain entities previously disclosed to the Company); and

(b)

the Company’s policy on non-executive directorships (as notified to you from time to time).

You may retain any fees received as a non-executive director. Days of service as a non-executive director will not be deducted from your holiday entitlement provided that you shall not spend more than ten working days in aggregate in any year in such service. At any time during the Employment Period the Company may, with reasonable cause, require you to resign any non-executive directorship held. Reasonable cause for this purpose shall include but not be limited to a conflict of interest and such other reason or reasons as may be specified in the Reuters Code of Conduct (as notified to you from time to time).

8.2 During the Employment Period you will not be directly or indirectly concerned in any business, trade, profession or other occupation (whether as an employee, consultant, agent, director or otherwise) of a similar nature to or competitive with that carried on by the Company or any Group Companies except:

(a)

as a representative or officer of a Group Company;

(b)

as a non-executive director under Clause 8.1;

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(c)

by virtue of your being interested in securities not representing more than (i) one per cent of a company’s issued securities of any class which are either listed on a recognised stock exchange or dealt on an unlisted securities market or an alternative investment market or authorised for quotation in a recognised inter-dealer quotation system or (ii) two per cent of a private operating company or (iii) five per cent of a private company where such interest takes the form of a purely passive investment, provided that you will make disclosure of your investments as required by law or by the requirements of any regulatory body to which the Company is subject; or

(d)

with the prior written consent of the Board.

8.3 For the avoidance of doubt, it is confirmed that, as at the date of this Agreement, you have been given approval to retain your current interest in securities in the company(ies) referred to in Schedule 3 to this Agreement.

8.4 You may serve on the board of religious, charitable, civic or public service organisations or otherwise be engaged in the activities of such organisations provided so serving or being so engaged does not prejudice your ability to fulfil your duties under this Agreement.

INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

9.1 It will be part of your normal duties at all times:

(a)

to consider in what manner and by what new methods or devices the products, services, processes, equipment or systems of the Company and other Group Companies with which you are concerned or for which you are responsible might be improved; and

(b)

promptly to give to the Company Secretary full details of any invention or improvement which you may from time to time make or discover in the course of your duties provided that any inadvertent or unintentional failure on your part to provide such details shall not be a breach of this Agreement.

Subject to the Patents Xxx 0000 of England and Wales, the Company will be entitled free of charge to the sole ownership of any such invention or improvement and to the exclusive use of it.

9.2 You assign to the Company (or to such other Group Company as the Company may direct) all copyrights, designs and other proprietary rights, if any, which may be so assigned in respect of all works and designs created by you or relating to your responsibilities during the Employment for the full term of those rights to the intent that those rights will immediately upon the completion of the relevant work rest with the Company (or with such other Group Company as the Company may direct).

9.3 At the request and cost of the Company, you will do all such acts and things as may in the opinion of the Board be necessary or conducive to vest such rights in the Company (or in such other Group Company as it may direct). You irrevocably authorise the Company for the purposes of this Clause to make use of your name and to sign and to execute any documents or do any thing on your behalf.

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9.4 You will not do anything knowingly to imperil the validity of any patent or protection owned by the Company (or in relation to which the Company is entitled to assert a right of ownership, whether pursuant to this Clause 9 or otherwise) or any application for any such patent or protection.

9.5 You will not either during or after the termination of the Employment exploit or assist others to exploit any invention or improvement owned by the Company (or in relation to which the Company is entitled to assert a right of ownership, whether pursuant to this Clause 9 or otherwise) which you may from time to time make or discover in the course of your duties or (unless it shall have become public knowledge) make public or disclose any such invention or improvement or give any information in respect of it except to the Company or as the Company may direct.

9.6 You irrevocably waive in favour of the Company (and in favour of such other Group Company as the Company may direct), its licensees and successors-in-title any and all moral rights in any works (existing or future) the subject of copyright made by you in the course of the Employment.

CONFIDENTIALITY

10.1 During and after the termination of the Employment you will at all times keep confidential all private information about the Company and other Group Companies including technical and financial information, which you may have acquired while in the employment of the Company or of any other Group Company. You will not use such information for your own benefit or for the benefit of any business not within the Group. You will keep such information confidential to yourself, to other members of the Board and to anybody who needs such information in order properly to discharge his duties to the Company or any Group Company. Such information includes (without limitation) the following:

(a)

the business methods and information of the Company and any other Group Companies (including, without limitation, prices charged, discounts given to customers or obtained from suppliers, product development, marketing and advertising programmes, costing, budgets, turnover, sales targets and other financial information);

(b)

lists and particulars of the suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies and the individual contacts at such suppliers and customers;

(c)

details and terms of the agreements with suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies;

(d)

secret development manufacturing or production processes and know-how employed by the Company or any other Group Companies or their respective suppliers; and

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(e)

confidential details as to the design of the products and inventions or processes relating to the provision of services or developments relating to future products and services of the Company or of any other Group Companies or those of their respective suppliers.

10.2 These restrictions shall not apply to any disclosure or use authorised by the Board, as required in the ordinary performance of your duties or required by law or by the requirements of any regulatory or other authority to which the Company or any other Group Company or yourself is subject or as is reasonably necessary in connection with any adversarial proceedings against the Company and/or Group Company.

10.3 These restrictions shall not apply to information which is already in the public domain other than in cases where such information has become public as a result of a breach by you of these restrictions.

10.4 These restrictions shall not restrict you from using your own personal skill in any business in which you may lawfully be engaged after termination of the Employment.

TERMINATION

Summary dismissal

11.1 The Company may terminate the Employment for Cause by immediate notice in writing and without payment of any kind other than any accrued but unpaid Base Salary, Bonus (as defined in Clause 1 of Schedule 1) and holiday pay up to the date of termination and any other benefits or payments (including reimbursement of expenses) to which you may be entitled under any benefit scheme of the Company or any Group Company up to the date of termination (the Accrued Benefits).

For the purposes of this Agreement “Cause” shall mean:

(a)

if you commit any act or omission which constitutes:

(i)

gross misconduct; or

(ii)

persistent misconduct continuing after demand for cessation of such misconduct is delivered in writing by the Board or by the Company Secretary on instruction from the Board where such act does not cease or such omission is not remedied within ten (10) days following delivery of such written demand; or

(b)

if you wilfully commit any material breach of any material provision of this Agreement;

(c)

if you wilfully neglect or refuse to carry out any material part of your duties (other than for a reason set forth in Clause 11.2) and which is not remedied by you, if capable of remedy, within ten (10) days following written notice by the Board of its intention to terminate the Employment under this sub-Clause (c);

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(d)

if you engage (either in bad faith or intentionally and with recklessness as to the consequences of your actions) in any conduct which materially damages the reputation of the Company or any other Group Companies;

(e)

if you become prohibited by law from being a director of the Company due to your misconduct (including by virtue of your having committed an offence under section 213 or 214 of the Insolvency Act 1986); or

(f)

if you terminate your directorship of the Company without Good Reason or without the consent of the Board.

For purposes of this Clause 11.1, no act, or failure to act, by you shall be considered to have been done or omitted to be done “wilfully” unless committed in bad faith or without a reasonable degree of skill or care or without a reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the best interests of the Company or any Group Company.

Cause shall not exist under sub-Clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) unless and until the Company has delivered to you a copy of a resolution duly adopted by a majority of all the members of the Board at a quorate Board meeting (such majority and quorum to exclude you) called and held for such purpose (after not less than three business days’ notice to you and an opportunity for you and, where the Board agrees in advance, your counsel, to be heard before the Board) finding that Cause exists.

Termination by the Company through illness or death

11.2 The Company may terminate the Employment if you are prevented by illness (including mental illness) or injury from attending to your duties for more than 365 days in aggregate in any one period of twenty four (24) consecutive calendar months. The Company will not terminate the Employment pursuant to this Clause 11.2 if, as a result, you would or may forfeit any entitlement to benefits under the permanent health insurance arrangements referred to in Schedule 1 unless it can procure the provision of continued cover under those arrangements or reimburse you the cost of premiums for continued cover under those arrangements or under other arrangements providing substantially similar cover for the period of the illness in question or until benefits would apart from such termination have ceased to be payable had the Employment continued or until you obtain permanent health insurance cover from a subsequent employer, whichever is the shortest period. Upon such termination of Employment or due to your death, the Company shall pay you the Accrued Benefits and you shall be entitled to the benefits provided for in Clause 11.12.

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Termination by the Company without Cause

11.3 The Company may terminate the Employment without Cause by giving you 30 days’ advance written notice. Upon such termination of Employment, the Company shall pay you the aggregate of (i) the Accrued Benefits and (ii) the Cessation Compensation in cash in accordance with Clause 11.7 and (iii) you shall be entitled to the benefits provided for in Clause 11.12. In addition, the Company shall maintain in full force and effect, for the continued benefit of you, your spouse and your children for a period of one year following the date of termination the medical, hospitalisation, dental, and life insurance schemes in which you, your spouse and your children were participating immediately prior to the date of termination at the level in effect and upon substantially the same terms and conditions (including without limitation contributions required by you for such benefits) as existed immediately prior to the date of termination. If you, your spouse or your children cannot continue to participate in the Company schemes providing such benefits, the Company shall arrange, at its discretion, either to provide you, your spouse and your children with the cash equivalent of such benefits which they otherwise would have been entitled to receive under such schemes or to pay the premiums to enable continued participation in equivalent schemes for a period of one year following the date of termination. The Company’s obligation to provide continuing arrangements in relation to medical, hospitalisation, dental and life assurance schemes under this Clause 11.3 shall terminate on the date or dates you receive equivalent cover and benefits, without waiting period or pre-existing condition limitations under the schemes of a subsequent employer (such cover and benefits to be determined on a cover by cover and benefit by benefit basis). If you obtain cover or benefits relating to medical, hospitalisation, dental and life insurance schemes from a subsequent employer which are less generous than those provided to you by the Company, you shall be entitled from the Company only to the difference between the cover or benefits you obtain from a subsequent employer and those to which you would have been entitled hereunder had no subsequent employer provided cover or benefits. You will use all reasonable endeavours to obtain equivalent cover and benefits from a subsequent employer. Once equivalent cover and benefits have been obtained from such subsequent employer, the Company’s obligations to provide such cover and benefits for such one year period shall cease absolutely. For the purpose of this Clause 11.3, the reference to children means children up to the age of 21 or, if older and if they are in full time education, until they finish their education.

Termination through loss of directorship

11.4 If you are removed from the office of director of the Company, or the Company fails in general meeting to re-elect you as a director of the Company (including if, under the Articles of Association or other constitutional documents for the time being of the Company, you are obliged to retire by rotation or otherwise), then the Company may elect that the Employment shall terminate immediately without prejudice to the right of either party to this Agreement to treat any act or omission causing such removal from office as a breach of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, it is acknowledged that termination of the Employment pursuant to this Clause 11.4 where removal from office has not taken place in circumstances justifying dismissal for Cause under Clause 11.1 constitutes a termination of the Employment without Cause for the purpose of Clause 11.3.

Termination by you without Good Reason

11.5 You may terminate the Employment without Good Reason (as defined below) by giving the Company ninety (90) days’ advance written notice. In such event, you will be entitled to the same payments as described in Clause 11.1.

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Termination by you with Good Reason

11.6 You may terminate the Employment by giving the Company thirty (30) days’ advance written notice, such notice to be given within ninety (90) days after:

(a)

in the case of a Good Reason event which is incurable, the date on which the Good Reason event occurs (provided that such thirty (30) days’ notice is not required for an event described in sub-Clause (iv) of the definition of Good Reason below); and

(b)

in the case of a Good Reason event which is curable but which is not cured within thirty (30) days of you giving written notice to the Company specifying the Good Reason event and requiring it to be cured, the date falling thirty (30) days after the date of such notice to the Company.

Upon such a termination of Employment, you will be entitled to the same payments as in the case of a termination of Employment by the Company without Cause (as described in Clause 11.3).

“Good Reason” shall mean, without your written consent, any of the following events:

(i)

the assignment to you of any duties inconsistent in any respect with your position (including status, offices, titles and reporting requirement), authority, duties or responsibilities or any other action by the Company (or its successors or assigns) which results in material diminution in such position, authority, duties or responsibilities (including, for the avoidance of doubt, your responsibilities as the Chief Executive Officer of a publicly listed company), but excluding for this purpose an isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent action not taken in bad faith and which is remedied by the Company promptly after receipt of notice thereof given by you;

(ii)

any material breach of any material provision of this Agreement by the Company (or its successors or assigns), including, without limitation, a reduction in your Base Salary, reduction in your bonus opportunity as a percentage of salary or the material alteration to your detriment of the performance criteria pursuant to which such Bonus is calculated, a failure of the Company (or its successors or assigns) to make the equity grants contemplated under Clause 6.4, or the Company’s (or its successors’ or assigns’) failure to provide in all material respects the indemnification in Clause 8 of Schedule 1;

(iii)

any required relocation of you outside London or New York City; and

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(iv)

a Change of Control unless a third party acquiring control of more than 50% of the voting rights of the Company for the purposes of the definition of Change of Control in this sub-Clause (iv) has agreed to adopt the Reuter Trust, the Reuter Trust Principles and the rights and duties of the Reuter Trustees as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company and in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Reuters Founders Share Company Limited and to use its best endeavours to procure that the Principles and such rights and duties are observed and upheld within the Company and any holding company of the Company and a Change of Control shall for the purpose of this Agreement occur where more than 50% of the voting rights of the Company become controlled by any third party (including persons acting in concert but excluding Reuters Founders Share Company Limited) or the Company sells or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets with the approval of the Company’s shareholders, other than for the purposes of a reconstruction or reorganisation in which (A) the ultimate ownership of the Company or substantially all its assets is unaffected or (B) a new holding company for the Company is created, where the new holding company has substantially the same shareholders and proportionate shareholdings as those of the Company immediately prior to the interposition of the new holding company.

Cessation Compensation

11.7 For the purpose of Clause 11.3 and 11.6:

(a)

Cessation Compensation means: (i) if the Employment is terminated after the Effective Date but on or before the second anniversary of the Effective Date, the product of two and the Relevant Sum; or (ii) if the Employment is terminated after the second anniversary of the Effective Date but on or before the third anniversary of the Effective Date, the product of 1.67 and the Relevant Sum; or (iii) if the Employment is terminated after the third anniversary of the Effective Date but on or before the fourth anniversary of the Effective Date, the product of 1.33 and the Relevant Sum; or (iv) if the Employment is terminated after the fourth anniversary of the Effective Date, the Relevant Sum;

(b)

Relevant Sum means the sum of your Base Salary and Relevant Bonus;

(c)

Relevant Bonus means H x (I% x Base Salary) where H is the highest percentage of bonus which you have received in the three years prior to the year in which the Employment terminates (including, if relevant, periods prior to the Effective Date) and I is the maximum percentage of Base Salary earnable as bonus in the year of termination. For example, if you are eligible to a bonus of 125% of a Base Salary of £1,000,000 and in the last three years you have received 100%, 90% and 50% of your bonus respectively, your relevant bonus will be £1,250,000.

Other than in respect of your rights under Clause 11.12, you agree that any payment of Cessation Compensation made to you pursuant to Clause 11.3 or 11.6 will be in full and final settlement of any claim which you might otherwise have against the Company and against any other Group Company for damages for wrongful dismissal and the parties agree that the Cessation Compensation represents a genuine pre-estimate of the loss which would otherwise have been suffered by you.

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The payment to be made to you pursuant to Clause 11.3 or 11.6 will be made in two stages. The total amount, less a deduction of £60,000, will be paid within seven (7) days of the termination of the Employment. The remaining balance of £60,000 will be paid within four months of the termination of the Employment, conditional upon you not having bought any claims before a court or tribunal against the Company or any other Group Company or any of their respective officers and employees in connection with the Employment or its termination in or prior to that four month period.

Mitigation

11.8 You shall not be required to mitigate amounts payable under this Clause 11 by seeking other employment or otherwise, and there shall be no offset against amounts due to you under this Clause 11 on account of subsequent employment save as provided herein. Additionally, amounts owed to you under this Clause 11 shall not be offset by any claims the Company may have against you and, subject to Clause 6.5, the Company’s obligation to make the payments provided for in this Agreement and otherwise to perform its obligations hereunder, shall not be affected by any other circumstances including, without limitation, any counterclaim, recoupment, defence or other right which the Company may have against you or others.

Return of documents

11.9 On termination of the Employment for any reason or, at the request of the Company, when notice to terminate the Employment is given, you must immediately deliver to the Company (without keeping any copies):

(a)

all documents, papers and materials and any other property of the Company and of any other Group Companies; and

(b)

all documents or other media on which confidential information about the Company and any other Group Companies is recorded,

in your possession or under your control.

Resignation as a director

11.10 On termination of the Employment for any reason, you must immediately, at the request of the Company, resign your office as a director of the Company and of any other Group Company without compensation for loss of office other than as provided in this Agreement.

Share schemes

11.11 It is acknowledged that you may, during the Employment, be granted rights upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the rules from time to time of the Reuters Group PLC Long Term Incentive Plan or any other profit sharing, share incentive, share option, bonus or phantom option scheme operated by the Company or any other Group Company with respect to shares in the Company or any other Group Company. Subject to Clause 11.12, if on termination of the Employment, whether lawfully or in breach of contract you lose any of the rights or benefits under such schemes (including rights or benefits which you would not have lost had the Employment not been terminated) you shall not be entitled, by way of compensation for loss of office or otherwise howsoever, to any compensation for the loss of any rights under any such scheme.

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11.12 Notwithstanding Clause 11.11, if the Employment is terminated in any of the circumstances described in Clause 11.2, 11.3 or 11.6 or by reason of your death or where it is terminated pursuant to Clause 11.4 in circumstances where such termination constitutes a termination of the Employment without Cause for the purpose of Clause 11.3, the Company will procure that you shall retain all awards made under the Company’s or any Group Company’s equity plans or programs, including, without limitation, the awards under Clause 6.4 hereof (the Equity Plans) granted to you (including without limitation in the form of options shares or share rights) which have not vested or crystallised at the date of termination and shall in respect of the subsequent vesting or crystallisation of such awards (including through any extension of the applicable vesting period) and their exercise or release be treated as though you had continued in Employment. In addition, notwithstanding the terms and conditions of the Equity Plans to the contrary, with respect to the retention, vesting and/or crystallisation of such awards your personal conduct following your termination of Employment will not in any way affect your right to continue to retain, vest or crystallise with respect to such awards, provided that the terms or conditions of the Equity Plans relating to the performance conditions pursuant to which such awards vest and crystallise shall continue to apply. Should it not be possible to treat you as if you are a continuing employee in respect of the vesting, crystallisation, exercise or release of any awards under the Equity Plans, the Company will procure that all your awards vest (and/or crystallise, as the case may be) in full and become exercisable on termination of Employment regardless of any conditions relating to status, personal conduct or otherwise, and in the case of options shall remain exercisable for at least 6 months following termination of employment.

SUSPENSION

12.1 The Board may at any time or from time to time suspend you from the performance of your duties and/or exclude you from any of the premises of the Company or of any other Group Company in circumstances in which the Board reasonably believes that you have committed gross misconduct or are in material breach of a material provision of this Agreement and in order that the circumstances giving rise to that belief may be investigated. You shall be suspended for such period as the Board considers reasonably necessary for it to undertake a proper investigation but in any event for no longer than ninety (90) consecutive days. At the end of such ninety (90) day period, the Company will procure that you are either reinstated in your post as Chief Executive Officer or that your Employment is terminated. The Company will give you a reason for suspending or excluding you. Your salary and benefits will not cease to be payable by reason only of such suspension or exclusion.

12.2 During any period of suspension or exclusion, you will not contact or deal with customers, suppliers or employees of the Company or of any other Group Company or enter onto the premises of the Company or of any Group Company without the prior written consent of the Chairman of the Company. You will be entitled to terminate the Employment without Good Reason pursuant to Clause 11.5 but without the requirement to give the Company ninety (90) days’ advance written notice. Any rights you might otherwise have to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Clause 11.6 shall not be affected during any period of suspension or exclusion (although you acknowledge that such suspension or exclusion shall in and of itself not constitute Good Reason pursuant to Clause 11.6).

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CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS

Non-representation

13.1 You will not at any time after the termination of the Employment directly or indirectly represent yourself as being in any way connected with or interested in the business of the Group (except, if it is the case, as a shareholder of the Company or as a director of the Company).

Non-solicitation of employees

13.2 You must not for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment solicit, interfere with or attempt to entice away from the Company or any other Group Company or employ or engage any employee of the Company or of any other Group Company with whom you had business dealings or who reported to you, directly or indirectly, during the period of 12 months preceding the date of termination of the Employment and who is or was employed or engaged by the Company or by any other Group Company:

(a)

as a director or in a managerial or technical capacity; or

(b)

who you know (or ought reasonably to know) could materially damage the interests of the Company or any other Group Company if he became employed in any business in competition with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company.

Non-solicitation of business

13.3 You must not for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment solicit, interfere with or attempt to entice away from the Company or any other Group Company the business of any firm, company or other person who, during the period of 12 months preceding the date of termination of the Employment, was a customer of the Company or of any other Group Company with whom you had business dealings or about whom you became informed or over whom you had influence in the course of the Employment during that period, with a view to providing goods or services which would compete with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company carried on at the date of termination of the Employment and with which you were materially involved during that period for the account or benefit of any other business concern of which you are a sponsor or promoter and which is in competition with the business of the Company or any Group Company.

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Non-dealing

13.4 You must not for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment deal with any person, firm or company who during the period of 12 months preceding the date of termination of the Employment was a customer or potential customer of the Company or of any other Group Company and (in the case of a customer) to whom you provided services on behalf of the Company or any other Group Company or (in the case of a potential customer) with whom you had business dealings with a view to obtaining business for the Company or any other Group Company and in each case with whom you had business dealings or about whom you became informed or over whom you had influence in the course of the Employment during that period, with a view to providing goods or services which would compete with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company carried on at the date of termination of the Employment and with which you were materially involved during that period for the account or benefit of any business concern referred to in Clause 13.5 or for the account of any other business concern of which you are a sponsor or promoter and which is in competition with the business of the Company or any Group Company.

Non-competition

13.5 You must not, for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment, be engaged in or concerned in any capacity in any business concern which is in competition with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company. A list of such business concerns as at the date of this Agreement is set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to this Agreement. Unless you have the prior approval of the Chairman of the Company you may not, for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment, be engaged in or concerned in any capacity in any of the business concerns named in the lists set out in Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 2 to this Agreement. The lists in Schedule 2 may be amended by the Board acting reasonably (provided that the number of business concerns included in Schedule 2 at any one time shall not exceed 15) and each such amendment shall be notified to you from time to time. This Clause shall not restrain you from being engaged or concerned in any business concern in so far as your duties or work relate solely to services or activities of a kind with which you were not concerned to a material extent during the period of six months preceding the date of termination of the Employment.

Extension to other persons

13.6 The obligations imposed on you by this Clause 13 extend to you acting not only on your own account but also on behalf of any other firm, company or other person and shall apply whether you act directly or indirectly.

Acknowledgement of reasonableness

13.7 The restrictions contained in this Clause 13 are considered by you and the Company to be reasonable in all the circumstances. Each part of this Clause constitutes an entirely separate and independent restriction and the duration, extent and application of each of the restrictions are not greater than is necessary for the protection of the commercial interests of the Group and their stable trained workforce.

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No disparaging statements

13.8 Each party agrees (and in the case of the Company, it shall use reasonable endeavours to cause its executives, officers, employees, directors, agents and consultants) during, and after termination of, your Employment not to make, publish or in any other way communicate or cause to be made, published or issued or otherwise communicate to any third party any disparaging or derogatory statements to any third party concerning you or the Company or any Group Company or any of its or their current executives, officers, employees, agents or consultants provided that nothing in this Agreement will prevent you or the Company or any Group Company from disclosing information as required by law or in order to take professional advice or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

14. Without limiting your rights to terminate the Employment with Good Reason pursuant to Clause 11.6 or to enforce any of the terms of this Agreement in accordance with Clause 19 directly without regard to this Clause 14, if at any time you have a grievance relating to the Employment, you may seek redress orally or in writing by, in the first instance, referring the grievance to the Chairman of the Company. If the grievance remains unresolved, you may appeal to the Board and the Board shall deal with the matter by discussion and by majority decision of those present at the relevant meeting of the Board. The Board’s decision shall be final and binding with respect to the grievance procedure save that if you are not satisfied with the decision of the Board, you may pursue an action in a manner contemplated by Clause 19.

WAIVER

15. Any delay or forbearance by the Company or you in exercising any right of determination of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of it.

AMENDMENTS

16. No amendment or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by you and a Director of the Company.

NOTICES

17. Any notice to be given under this Agreement to you may be served by being handed to you personally or by being sent by recorded delivery first class post or by fax to you at an address for service within the United Kingdom nominated by you for this purpose; and any notice to be given to the Company may be served by being marked for the attention of the Company Secretary and by being left at or by being sent by recorded delivery first class post or by fax to its registered office for the time being. Any notice served by post shall be deemed to have been served on the second day (excluding Sundays and statutory holidays) next following the date of posting and in proving such service it shall be sufficient proof that the envelope containing the notice was, in your case, addressed to you at an address for service within the United Kingdom nominated by you for these purposes and, in the case of the Company, addressed to it marked for the attention of the Company Secretary at its registered office for the time being, and in either case posted as a prepaid letter by recorded delivery. Any notice served by fax shall be deemed to have been served twelve hours after the time of despatch.

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OTHER AGREEMENTS

18. You acknowledge and warrant that there are no agreements or arrangements whether written, oral or implied between the Company or any other Group Company and you relating to your employment or the Employment other than the Side Letter and those which are expressly set out or referred to in this Agreement and that you are not entering into this Agreement in reliance on any representation not expressly set out in this Agreement.

GOVERNING LAW

19. This Agreement will be governed by and construed under English Law without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions, and each of the parties hereby irrevocably agrees that the Courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement.

WITHHOLDING OR DEDUCTIONS FOR TAX

20. All amounts payable to you under this Agreement shall be subject to applicable withholding or deductions of income, salary and such other withholdings or deductions which the Company reasonably determines are required to be withheld or made in accordance with applicable laws.

AS WITNESS whereof this Agreement has been signed by or on behalf of the parties to it on the day and year first above written.

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SCHEDULE 1

OTHER BENEFITS

BONUS

1. You will be entitled to participate in an annual bonus plan to be administered by the Remuneration Committee. Unless otherwise agreed by the Remuneration Committee, the annual bonus (the Bonus) payable under this plan will be an amount of up to 150% of your Base Salary provided that in respect of 2001, 2002 and 2003 financial years, the Bonus will be an amount of up to 125% of your Base Salary. The criteria relating to your performance and that of the Company which are to be used to determine the amount of the bonus in any year will be laid down by the Remuneration Committee at the commencement of each year and the bonus for that year will be paid as soon as reasonably practicable after the relevant results have been determined. The Remuneration Committee reserves the right to amend the quantitative criteria annually, subject to your right to terminate for Good Reason (as defined in your Service Agreement) in the event of a material amendment to your detriment. On termination of the Employment during a financial year, other than termination pursuant to Clause 11.1 or Clause 11.5 or as otherwise provided under Clause 11.7, you shall be entitled to a pro-rated amount of average Bonus, being such proportion of the average bonus you have received in the three years prior to the year in which the Employment terminates as is equivalent to the proportion of the financial year during which the Employment has subsisted.

HOLIDAYS

2.1 The Company’s holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December. In addition to the bank and other public holidays, you will be entitled to 30 working days’ paid holiday and three personal days in each holiday year.

2.2 Your annual holiday may be taken at such time or times as are reasonably appropriate having regard to the business needs of the Company.

2.3 Holidays not taken in the year of entitlement will be lost unless carried forward with the agreement of the Chairman of the Company.

2.4 On termination of the Employment, you will be entitled to pay in lieu of any unpaid holiday or be required to pay the Company any salary received for holiday taken in excess of your contractual entitlement.

PENSION PLANS

3. During the Employment Period, you will be provided with pension and retirement benefits appropriate to your senior executive status in the Company and which are no less favourable than those for the majority of executive Directors. For this purpose, you and the Company shall work to provide such benefits in a manner which is tax efficient to both parties.

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LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

4. Subject to Clause 11.13 of the Service Agreement, you are entitled to be a member of the Reuters Group PLC Long Term Incentive Plan (as notified to you from time to time) (or any plan operated by the Company in succession to that plan) for so long as such plans may be operated by the Company, and the Company shall pay to you benefits under these plans, subject to the conditions of the Company’s policy on retention of LTIP awards on early retirement (as notified to you from time to time).

MEDICAL/DISABILITY INSURANCE

5.1 You shall be entitled to membership of the Company’s Medical, Dental and Eye Care plans, subject to the terms of the plans and of any related policies of insurance as in force from time to time.

5.2 You shall be entitled to membership of the Company’s disability insurance plans, subject to the terms of those plans and of any related policies of insurance as in force from time to time.

LIFE ASSURANCE

6. You are entitled to membership of the Company’s Basic Life Assurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance and Supplemental Life Assurance Plans, subject to the terms of the plans and of any related policy of insurance as in force from time to time.

COMPANY CAR

7. The Company will provide you with a monthly car allowance subject to the Company’s Policy on Executive Director’s Cars which shall be payable in instalments with Base Salary pursuant to Clause 6.2.

DIRECTORS’ INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE

8.1 During the Employment Period and thereafter, you shall have the benefits of:

(a)

a complete indemnity for all and any liabilities incurred by you (including, without limitation, all legal expenses reasonably incurred by you) in your capacity as an officer, director or employee of the Company or any other Group Company to the fullest extent provided in the constitutional documents of the Company or any Group Company for all acts or omissions on your part whilst acting as a director, officer or employee of the Company or such other Group Company (to the extent such indemnity is permitted by the law of the country to which the relevant Company or Group Company is subject); and

(b)

(subject to their terms) any insurance policies which shall be maintained by the Company in respect of liabilities incurred by Group Company directors officers and employees in their capacity as such.

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The obligations of the Company under Clauses 8.1 and 8.2 shall survive termination of the Employment and shall not be offset by any liquidated damages contemplated under this Agreement.

8.2 During the Employment Period and thereafter, the Company shall procure that you have (to the extent such indemnity is permitted by applicable law) a complete indemnity for all any liabilities incurred by you (other than where such liability arises out of or relates to the commission by you of a criminal offence or any wilful default or gross negligence) in your capacity as an officer or director of any company or similar entity that is not a member of the Group, where such directorship or office is held by you at the request of the Company.

8.3 You are entitled to take independent professional advice, at the expense of the Company, where such advice is reasonably required for the furtherance of your duties as a director of the Company. No prior approval is required to obtain advice costing up to £5,000. Before seeking advice that is likely to cost more than £5,000 you must obtain the written consent of at least one non-executive director and send a copy of such consent to the Company Secretary. The non-executive director shall have power to set a reasonable limit on the cost you may incur on obtaining independent advice at the Company’s expense without further reference to him.

OTHER BENEFITS

9.1 During the Employment Period the Company will meet or reimburse you for:

(a)

a relocation bonus of US$750,000, less any portion of such amount previously paid to you by the Company or any other member of the Group (and further subject to deductions for income tax);

(b)

an annual expatriate bonus in such amount as is specified in the annual statement of remuneration and benefits referred to in Clause 6.1 of the Agreement (less deductions for income tax);

(c)

relocation costs which you reasonably incur in relocating from New York to London;

(d)

any reasonable costs incurred by you in seeking legal and financial advice in relation to this Agreement; and

(e)

the cost of business class travel from New York to London (and return) five times a year for your spouse, children and nanny.

9.2

The Company will provide you with a licence to occupy property at 00 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx XX0, or similar accommodation acceptable to you, free of charge. The licence shall be revocable by the Company at any time and, in any event, no later than 31 March 2004. However, if the licence is revoked you will, in respect of the period between the date of revocation and 31 March 2004 be paid a housing allowance at an annual rate of £381,316. After 31 March 2004, the Company will, at its election, either continue to provide you with a licence to occupy suitable accommodation acceptable to you, or will pay you a housing allowance of US$447,733 per annum (such amount to be converted into sterling at the prevailing rate on the Effective Date) in respect of your accommodation costs.

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9.3

You shall have such other benefits as may be made available to you by the Company from time to time, including but not limited to the use of Reuters products, mobile telephone and other equipment and membership of professional bodies.

9.4

During the Employment Period, the Company shall reimburse your reasonable personal financial and tax planning and preparation and filing expenses.

9.5

Following the termination of the Employment for any reason, the Company shall reimburse you (or your estate or beneficiaries) for all reasonable expenses incurred by you (or your family in the event of your death or incapacity) to relocate from your new location to anywhere in the United States.

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SCHEDULE 2

COMPETING BUSINESS CONCERNS
AS AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT

Part 1 Competing Business Concerns as at the date of this Agreement

Bloomberg L.P.

Bridge Information Systems (or any successor in business or assign to the European business of Bridge Information Systems)

Xxxxxxx PLC

Quick Corporation of Japan

AOL TimeWarner

Telekurs A.G.

SunGard

The Electronic Broking Service

Part 2 Companies with Divisions which compete with Reuters

The Thomson Corporation

The McGraw Hill Companies

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation

Xxxx Elsevier P.L.C./Elsevier N.V.

Part 3 Companies with which Reuters has Strategic Relationships

Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc.

Yahoo! Inc.

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SCHEDULE 3

PERMITTED SHAREHOLDINGSAS
AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT

SDK Investments, LLC

Giant Bear Inc.

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SIGNED by
for and on behalf of
REUTERS GROUP PLC
in the presence of:-

)
) Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
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)

SIGNED as a DEED
and DELIVERED by
XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
in the presence of :-

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________________________2001

REUTERS GROUP PLC

XXXXXX XXXXX

SERVICE AGREEMENT

		Page

1.	Definitions	1

2.	Duration of employment	1

3.	Role, Powers and Duties	1

4.	Normal Place of Work	2

5.	Hours of Work	2

6.	Salary and Benefits	2

7.	Expenses	3

8.	Other Interests	3

9.	Inventions and Improvements	4

10.	Confidentiality	5

11.	Statutory Provisions	6

12.	Termination	6

13.	Garden Leave and Suspension	9

14.	Continuing Obligations	10

15.	Waiver	12

16.	Amendments	12

17.	Notices	12

18.	Other Agreements	13

19.	Governing Law	13

20.	Withholding Taxes	13


SCHEDULE 1:	Other Benefits	14

SCHEDULE 2:	Additional Statutory Provisions	17

SCHEDULE 3:	Competing Business Concerns	19

THIS AGREEMENT is made on 20th June 2001

BETWEEN

(1) REUTERS GROUP PLC registered in England with No. 3296375 whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX0X 0XX (the Company); and

(2) XXXXXX XXXXX of Xxxx 00, Xxxxxx Xxxxx, 00-00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX (you).

IT IS AGREED as follows:

DEFINITIONS

1. In this Agreement the following expressions shall have the following meanings:

Board means the board of directors of Reuters Group PLC or a duly constituted committee of the board of directors;

Employment means your employment in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

Group means the Company, any holding company of the Company and any subsidiary of the Company or of any such holding company (with holding company and subsidiary having the meanings given to them by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985). Group Company and Group Companies shall be construed accordingly; and

Remuneration Committee means the remuneration committee of the Board.

DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT

2. The Employment will begin on the date of this Agreement and will continue until terminated in accordance with Clause 12 below.

ROLE, POWERS AND DUTIES

3.1 You will serve the Company as Chief Operating Officer, or in such other capacity of a like status as the Company may require.

3.2 Subject to Clause 4, you will exercise such powers and perform such duties in relation to the business of the Company and the Group, being duties which are appropriate to your senior status, as may be assigned to you by the Chief Executive of the Company after taking into account the opinion of the Board.

3.3 During the Employment you will:

(a)

devote substantially the whole of your working time, attention and abilities to carrying out those duties in a proper, loyal and efficient manner;

(b)

use all reasonable endeavours to promote the interests of the Company and any other Group Company which you may be required to serve under the terms of this Agreement;

(c)

have due regard to the Reuters Trust Principles and to the rights and duties of the Reuters Trustees as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company and the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Reuters Founders Share Company Limited insofar as, by the proper exercise of your powers (and in accordance with your other duties) as director of the Company, the Reuters Trust Principles are capable of being observed by you;

(d)

(e)

comply with the Reuters Share Dealings Code (as notified to you from time to time); and

(f)

have due regard to the provisions of all other policies which are applied to you by the Company, as notified to you from time to time.

3.4 You are entitled to take independent professional advice, at the expense of the Company, where such advice is reasonably required for the furtherance of your duties as a director of the Company and provided that before taking such advice you obtain the written consent of one other director and send a copy of such consent to the Company Secretary and that the Company’s expenditure on such advice does not exceed £50,000 per annum.

NORMAL PLACE OF WORK

4. Your normal place of work is at the Company’s head office. You may be required, in the performance of your duties, to travel in the United Kingdom and overseas. However, having given you reasonable notice, the Company may reasonably require you to perform your duties at the offices of another Group Company in a major financial centre outside the United Kingdom, such as New York, in which case you shall be offered expatriate benefits appropriate to your senior status.

HOURS OF WORK

5. You will work the Company’s normal working hours together with such additional hours as may reasonably be required for the proper performance of your duties.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

6.1 You will be paid a salary at such rate as is set out in an annual letter to you from the Company and as confirmed in your annual statement of remuneration and benefits.

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6.2 Your salary will accrue from day to day and be payable in arrears by equal monthly instalments on or about the fifteenth day of each month.

6.3 You are not entitled to any other salary or fees as director or employee of the Company or any other Group Company and you must, as the Company directs, either waive your rights to any such salary or fees or account for the same to the Company (failing which it will be deducted from your salary).

6.4 Your salary and benefits will be reviewed annually by the Remuneration Committee. Any change in the level of your salary and benefits as a result of the review (which will not be downwards) will be effective from 1 January of the year following the review (unless you and the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee agree otherwise).

6.5 In addition to the above, you will be entitled to receive those benefits set out in Schedule 1 to this Agreement.

6.6 During or after the termination of the Employment for whatever reason, the Company may deduct from your pay any sums outstanding to the Company or to any other Group Company from you including, without limitation, any advance of pay or loans or floats for expenses.

EXPENSES

OTHER INTERESTS

8.1 During the Employment you will be entitled to accept appointments as a non-executive director of companies other than a Group Company subject to:

(a)

the prior written consent of the Chief Executive of the Company (such consent to be confirmed by the Board); and

(b)

the Company's policy on non-executive directorships (as notified to you from time to time).

You may retain any fees received as a non-executive director provided they are paid in cash rather than in stock, other securities or options. Days of service as a non-executive director will not be deducted from your holiday entitlement provided that you shall not spend more than ten working days in aggregate in any year in such service. At any time during the Employment the Company may, with reasonable cause, require you to resign any non-executive directorship held. Reasonable cause for this purpose shall include but not be limited to a conflict of interest and such other reason or reasons as may be specified in the Reuters Code of Conduct (as notified to you from time to time).

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8.2 During the Employment you will not be directly or indirectly concerned in any business, trade, profession or other occupation (whether as an employee, consultant, agent, director or otherwise) of a similar nature to or competitive with that carried on by the Company or any Group Companies except:

(a)

as a representative or officer of a Group Company;

(b)

as a non-executive director under Clause 8.1;

(c)

by virtue of your being interested in securities not representing more than one per cent of a company’s issued securities of any class which are either (i) listed on a recognised stock exchange or dealt on an unlisted securities market or an alternative investment market or authorised for quotation in a recognised inter-dealer quotation system or (ii) of a private company whose shares the Chief Executive of the Company has authorised you to hold; or

(d)

with the prior written consent of the Board.

8.3 You may serve on the board of religious, charitable or public service organisations or otherwise be engaged in the activities of such organisations provided so serving or being so engaged does not prejudice your ability to fulfil your duties under this Agreement.

INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

9.1 It will be part of your normal duties at all times:

(a)

(b)

promptly to give to the Company Secretary of the Company full details of any invention or improvement which you may from time to time make or discover in the course of your duties.

Subject to the Patents Xxx 0000, the Company will be entitled free of charge to the sole ownership of any such invention or improvement and to the exclusive use of it.

9.2 You assign to the Company (or to such other Group Company as the Company may direct) all copyrights, designs and other proprietary rights, if any, which may be so assigned in respect of all works and designs created by you or relating to your responsibilities during the Employment for the full term of those rights to the intent that those rights will immediately upon the completion of the relevant work vest with the Company (or with such other Group Company as the Company may direct).

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9.4 You will not do anything knowingly to imperil the validity of any patent or protection or any application for a patent or protection.

9.5 You will not either during or after the termination of the Employment exploit or assist others to exploit any invention or improvement which you may from time to time make or discover in the course of your duties or (unless it shall have become public knowledge) make public or disclose any such invention or improvement or give any information in respect of it except to the Company or as the Company may direct.

9.6 You irrevocably waive in favour of the Company (and in favour of such other Group Company as the Company may direct), its licensees and successors-in-title any and all moral rights in any works (existing or future) which are the subject of copyright made by you in the course of the Employment.

CONFIDENTIALITY

10.1 During and after the termination of the Employment you will at all times keep confidential all private information about the Company and other Group Companies including technical and financial information which you may have acquired while in the employment of the Company or of any other Group Company. You will not use such information for your own benefit or for the benefit of any business not within the Group. You will keep such information confidential to yourself, to other members of the Board and to anybody who needs such information in order to properly discharge his duties to the Company or any Group Company. Such information includes (without limitation) the following:

(a)

(b)

lists and particulars of the suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies and the individual contacts at such suppliers and customers;

(c)

details and terms of the Agreements with suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies;

(d)

secret development manufacturing or production processes and know-how employed by the Company or any other Group Companies or their respective suppliers; and

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(e)

10.2 These restrictions shall not apply to any disclosure or use authorised by the Board or required by law or by the requirements of any regulatory or other authority to which the Company or any other Group Company is subject.

10.4 These restrictions shall not restrict you from using your own personal skill in any business in which you may lawfully be engaged after termination of the Employment.

STATUTORY PROVISIONS

11. Additional provisions, details of which the Company is required by statute to provide you, are set out in Schedule 2 to this Agreement.

TERMINATION

Summary termination

12.1 The Company may terminate the Employment by immediate notice in writing and without payment of any kind other than salary and bonus accrued at the date of termination:

(a)

if in the reasonable opinion of the Board you are guilty of any:

(i)

serious misconduct;

(ii)

persistent misconduct continuing after demand for cessation of such misconduct is delivered in writing by the Board or by the Company Secretary on instruction from the Board; or

(b)

if you commit any material breach of any material provision of this Agreement;

(c)

if you neglect or refuse to carry out any material part of your duties (other than for a reason mentioned in Clause 12.2);

(d)

if you engage in any conduct which brings or is likely to bring the Company or any other Group Companies, in the reasonable opinion of the Board, into disrepute;

(e)

if you become bankrupt or enter into a composition with your creditors or apply for a receiving order or have a receiving order made against you;

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(f)

if you become prohibited by law from being a director; or

(g)

if you terminate your directorship of the Company without the consent of the Board.

Termination by the Company through illness

12.2 The Company may terminate the Employment if you are prevented by illness (including mental illness) or injury from attending to your duties for more than 365 days in aggregate in any one period of 24 consecutive calendar months. The Company will not terminate the Employment pursuant to this Clause 12.2 if, as a result, you would or may forfeit any entitlement to benefits under the permanent health insurance scheme referred to in Schedule 1 unless it has used all reasonable endeavours to try to procure the continuation of cover under that scheme.

Termination through loss of directorship

12.3 If you are removed from the office of director of the Company, or the Company fails in general meeting to re-elect you as a director of the Company (if, under the Articles of Association or other constitutional documents for the time being of the Company as the case may be, you are obliged to retire by rotation or otherwise), then the Company may elect that the Employment shall terminate immediately without prejudice to the right of either party to this Agreement to treat any act or omission causing such removal from office as a breach of this Agreement.

Termination on change of control

12.4 Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 12.5, you may terminate the Employment by giving the Company one month’s notice in writing, such notice to be given within three months after a Change of Control unless a third party acquiring control of more than 50% of the voting rights of the Company has agreed to adopt the Reuters Trust Principles and the rights and duties of the Reuters Trustees as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company and in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Reuters Founders Share Company Limited and to use its best endeavours to procure that the Principles and such rights and duties are observed and upheld within the Company and any holding company of the Company. A Change of Control shall for the purpose of this Agreement occur where more than 50% of the voting rights of the Company become controlled by any third party (including persons acting in concert but excluding Reuters Founders Share Company Limited) or the Company sells or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets with the approval of the Company’s shareholders, other than for the purposes of a reconstruction or reorganisation in which (A) the ultimate ownership of the Company or substantially all its assets is unaffected or (B) a new holding company for the Company is created, where the new holding company has substantially the same shareholders and proportionate shareholdings as those of the Company immediately prior to the interposition of the new holding company.

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Termination in other circumstances

12.5 Subject to earlier termination in accordance with the provisions of this Clause, the Employment will continue until terminated:

(a)

by the Company giving you 12 months' written notice; or

(b)

by you giving the Company 12 months' written notice.

The Company may, in its sole discretion, elect to terminate the Employment without giving you notice or the full period of notice required by 12.5 (a) in which event you will be entitled to receive a payment calculated in accordance with Clause 12.6.

Liquidated damages

12.6 This Clause applies if:

(a)

the Employment is terminated by the Company otherwise than a termination (i) in accordance with Clause 12.1 or (ii) where removal from office takes place in circumstances justifying summary termination under Clause 12.1, in accordance with Clause 12.3 or (iii) in accordance with Clause 12.5 unless the final sentence of Clause 12.5 applies in which case this Clause will apply;

(b)

you are constructively dismissed which for these purposes shall include (without limitation):

(i)

the assignment to you of any duties inconsistent in any respect with your position (including status, offices, titles and reporting requirement), authority, duties or responsibilities; or

(ii)

any other action by the Company which results in a diminution in such position, authority, duties or responsibilities, but excluding for this purpose an isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent action not taken in bad faith and which is remedied by the Company promptly after receipt of notice thereof given by you; or

(c)

you terminate the Employment under Clause 12.4.

Where this Clause applies, the Company will (subject to the remainder of this Clause) pay to you by way of liquidated damages an amount equal to the aggregate of :

(i)

your annual salary immediately prior to the date of termination of the Employment;

(ii)

the amount of pension contributions made by the Company on your behalf or to you in the last financial year of the Company preceding the date of termination; and

(iii)

the average of the last three annual bonuses earned by you pursuant to paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to this Agreement in the last three complete financial years of the Company preceding the date of termination.

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In the event that the Company requires you to work only part of the notice period required by Clause 12.5 (a), the liquidated damages payment under this Clause 12.6 will be reduced by an amount equal to the salary, pension contributions and (if applicable) bonus paid to you or on your behalf in respect of the period of notice worked.

In the event that the Employment is terminated in accordance with Clause 12.2, liquidated damages payment under this Clause 12.6 will be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of any benefit payable under the permanent health insurance scheme referred to in Schedule 1 for the period of 12 months following the date of termination.

The payment will be conditional on you not bringing any claims before a court or tribunal relating to the Employment and/or its termination. The payment will be made in two stages. The total amount, less a deduction of £60,000, will be paid within 14 days of the end of the Employment and the remaining balance of £60,000 will be paid within four months of the end of the Employment, in each case less any necessary withholdings. You agree to accept the same in full and final settlement of all and any claims or rights of action that you have or may have against the Company and against any other Group Company and against their respective officers and employees in connection with the Employment or its termination.

Return of documents

12.7 On termination of the Employment for any reason or, at the request of the Company, when notice to terminate the Employment is given, you must immediately deliver to the Company (without keeping any copies):

(a)

all documents, papers and materials and any other property of the Company and of any other Group Companies; and

(b)

all documents or other media on which confidential information about the Company and any other Group Companies is recorded,

in your possession or under your control.

Resignation as a director

12.8 On termination of the Employment for any reason, you must immediately, at the request of the Company resign your office as a director of the Company and of any other Group Company without compensation for loss of office but without prejudice to any rights which you may have to treat such request as a breach of this Agreement.

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Share schemes

12.9 It is acknowledged that you may, during the Employment, be granted rights upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the rules from time to time of the Reuters Group PLC Long Term Incentive Plan or any other profit sharing, share incentive, share option, bonus or phantom option scheme operated by the Company or any other Group Company with respect to shares in the Company or any other Group Company. If, on termination of the Employment, whether lawfully or in breach of contract you lose any of the rights or benefits under such schemes (including rights or benefits which you would not have lost had the Employment not been terminated) you shall not be entitled, by way of compensation for loss of office or otherwise howsoever, to any compensation for the loss of any rights under any such scheme.

GARDEN LEAVE AND SUSPENSION

13.1 The Company may at any time or from time to time suspend you from the performance of your duties and/or exclude you from any of the premises of the Company or of any other Group Company:

(a)

during any period of notice or any part of a period of notice as specified in Clauses 12.4 or 12.5; or

(b)

in circumstances in which the Company reasonably believes that you are guilty of misconduct or are in breach of this Agreement and in order that the circumstances giving rise to that belief may be investigated.

13.2 The Company is not required to give any reason for suspending or excluding you. Your salary and benefits will not cease to be payable by reason only of such suspension or exclusion.

13.3 During any period of suspension or exclusion, you will not contact or deal with customers, suppliers or employees of the Company or of any other Group Company or enter onto the premises of the Company or of any Group Company without the prior written consent of the Chief Executive of the Company.

CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS

Non-representation

14.1 You will not at any time after the termination of the Employment directly or indirectly represent yourself as being in any way connected with or interested in the business of the Group (except, if it is the case, as a shareholder of the Company or as a director of the Company).

Non-solicitation of employees

14.2 You must not for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment solicit, interfere with or attempt to entice away from the Company or any other Group Company or employ or engage any employee of the Company or of any other Group Company with whom you had business dealings or who reported to you, directly or indirectly, during the period of 12 months preceding the date of termination of the Employment and who is or was employed or engaged by the Company or by any other Group Company:

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(a)

as a director or in a managerial or technical capacity; or

(b)

you know (or ought reasonably to know) could materially damage the interests of the Company or any other Group Company if he became employed in any business in competition with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company.

Non-solicitation of business

14.3 You must not for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment solicit, interfere with or attempt to entice away from the Company or any other Group Company the business or custom of any firm, company or other person who, during the period of 12 months preceding the date of termination of the Employment, was a customer of the Company or of any other Group Company with whom you had business dealings or about whom you became informed or over whom you had influence in the course of the Employment during that period, with a view to providing goods or services which would compete with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company carried on at the date of termination of the Employment and with which you were materially involved during that period.

Non-dealing

14.4 You must not for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment deal with any person, firm or company who during the period of 12 months preceding the date of termination of the Employment was a customer or potential customer of the Company or of any other Group Company and (in the case of a customer) to whom you provided services on behalf of the Company or any other Group Company or (in the case of a potential customer) with whom you had business dealings with a view to obtaining business for the Company or any other Group Company and in each case with whom you had business dealings or about whom you became informed or over whom you had influence in the course of the Employment during that period, with a view to providing goods or services which would compete with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company carried on at the date of termination of the Employment and with which you were materially involved during that period.

Non-competition

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Schedule 3 of this Agreement. The lists in Schedule 3 may be amended by the Board acting reasonably (provided that the number of business concerns included in Schedule 3 at any one time shall not exceed 15) and each such amendment shall be notified to you from time to time. This Clause shall not restrain you from being engaged or concerned in any business concern in so far as your duties or work relate solely to services or activities of a kind with which you were not concerned to a material extent during the period of six months preceding the date of termination of the Employment.

Extension to other persons

14.6 The obligations imposed on you by this Clause 14 extend to you acting not only on your own account but also on behalf of any other firm, company or other person and shall apply whether you act directly or indirectly.

Acknowledgement of reasonableness

14.7 The restrictions contained in this Clause 14 are considered by you and the Company to be reasonable in all the circumstances. Each part of this Clause constitutes an entirely separate and independent restriction and the duration, extent and application of each of the restrictions are not greater than is necessary for the protection of the commercial interests of the Group and their stable trained workforce.

No disparaging statements

14.8 Each party agrees during, and after termination of, the Employment not to make, publish or cause to be made, published or issued or otherwise communicate to any third party any disparaging or derogatory statements to any third party concerning you or the Company or any Group Company or any of its or their current executives, officers, employees, agents or consultants, provided that nothing in this Agreement will prevent you or the Company from disclosing information as required by law or in order to take professional advice or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

WAIVER

15. Any delay or forbearance by the Company in exercising any right of determination of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of it.

AMENDMENTS

16. No amendment or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by you and a director or the Company Secretary of the Company.

NOTICES

17. Any notice required to be served under this Agreement may be given either personally, by fax or by registered post:

(a)

to the Company at its registered office for the time being; or

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(b)

to you at the address at the start of this Agreement or your last known address.

Any notice to be given under this Agreement to you may be served by being handed to you personally or by being sent by recorded delivery first class post or by fax to you at your usual or last known address; and any notice to be given to the Company may be served by being marked for the attention of the Company Secretary and by being left at or by being sent by recorded delivery first class post or by fax to its registered office for the time being. Any notice served by post shall be deemed to have been served on the second day (excluding Sundays and statutory holidays) next following the date of posting and in proving such service it shall be sufficient proof that the envelope containing the notice was, in your case, addressed to you at your usual or last known address and, in the case of the Company, addressed to it marked for the attention of the Company Secretary at its registered office for the time being, and in either case posted as a prepaid letter by recorded delivery. Any notice served by fax shall be deemed to have been served twelve hours after the time of despatch.

OTHER AGREEMENTS

18. You acknowledge and warrant that there are no Agreements or arrangements whether written, oral or implied between the Company or any other Group Company and you relating to your employment or the Employment other than those which are expressly set out in this Agreement and that you are not entering into this Agreement in reliance on any representation not expressly set out in this Agreement.

GOVERNING LAW

19. This Agreement will be governed by and construed under English law without regard to its conflicts of laws provisions, and each of the parties hereby irrevocably agrees for the exclusive benefit of the Company that the Courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement.

WITHHOLDING TAX

20. All amounts payable to you under this Agreement shall be subject to applicable withholding of income, salary and such other withholdings that the Company determines are required to be withheld in accordance with applicable laws.

AS WITNESS whereof this Agreement has been signed by or on behalf of the parties to it on the day and year first above written.

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SCHEDULE 1

OTHER BENEFITS

BONUS

1. You will be entitled to participate in an annual bonus plan to be administered by the Remuneration Committee. Unless otherwise agreed by the Remuneration Committee, the maximum annual bonus payable under this plan will be an amount up to 70% of your base salary (from 1 July 2001, 100% of base salary). The criteria relating to your performance and that of the Company which are to be used to determine the amount of the bonus in any year will be laid down by the Remuneration Committee at the commencement of each year and the bonus for that year will be paid as soon as reasonably practicable after the relevant results have been determined. The Remuneration Committee reserves the right to amend the quantitative criteria annually and/or to discontinue the bonus arrangement. On termination of the Employment, other than termination pursuant to Clause 12.1 or termination in respect of which Clause 12.6 applies, you shall be entitled to a pro-rated amount of bonus, being such proportion of average bonus (calculated according to Clause 12.6(iii)) as is the same as the proportion of the last financial year during which the Employment has subsisted.

SHARE OPTION PLANS

2.1 You will be eligible for membership of the Company’s Save As You Earn Share Option Scheme and of any other all employee share option plan operated by the Company and approved by the Company’s shareholders. Participation in such scheme and plans is, save as otherwise stipulated in their rules, at the sole discretion of the Board or the Remuneration Committee.

2.2 If you are relocated to a country outside the United Kingdom, you are entitled to participate in any equivalent scheme or plan operated by a Group Company in that country.

HOLIDAYS

3.1 The Company’s holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December. In addition to the bank and other public holidays, you will be entitled to 26 working days’ paid holiday in each holiday year. Thereafter, you will receive one extra day for each additional year of service, subject to a maximum entitlement of 30 working days’ paid holiday. In the first year of the Employment, the annual entitlement will be pro rata based on the holiday year.

3.2 Your annual holiday may be taken at such time or times as are reasonably appropriate having regard to the business needs of the Company.

3.3 Holidays not taken in the year of entitlement will be lost unless carried forward with the agreement of the Chief Executive of the Company.

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3.4 On termination of the Employment, you will be entitled to pay in lieu of any unpaid holiday or be required to pay the Company any salary received for holiday taken in excess of your contractual entitlement. You may be required to take any untaken holiday during your notice period.

PENSION SCHEMES

4.1 The Company will pay an amount equal to 30% of your base salary (or such other amount as is set out in your annual statement of remuneration and benefits) in equal monthly instalments to provide and/or in substitution for pension benefits.

4.2 All or part of this amount may be paid by the Company to a tax approved Company pension scheme or to such a personal pension plan as the Company may agree with you, subject to any limits imposed by the Inland Revenue from time to time. Any part of this amount not paid in this way will be paid to you as a cash allowance as part of your monthly remuneration (but will not be treated as part of your basic annual salary) and will be subject to deduction of income tax and National Insurance Contributions and any other statutory deductions which may be required from time to time.

4.3 You will not become a member of the Reuters UK Retirement Plan unless the Company agrees special terms of admission and membership with you and the Trustees of the Plan.

4.4 A contracting out certificate is not in force in respect of the Employment.

LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

5. You are entitled to be a member of the Reuters Group PLC Long Term Incentive Plan or any plan operated by the Company in succession to that plan (as notified to you from time to time) for so long as the Plan or such plan may be operated by the Company, and the Company shall pay to you benefits under the Plan or such plan, subject to the conditions of the Company’s policy on retention of LTIP awards on early retirement (as notified to you from time to time).

DISABILITY INSURANCE

6. You shall be entitled to membership of, and the Company shall pay to you benefits under, the Company’s disability insurance scheme, subject to the terms of that scheme and of any related policy of insurance as in force from time to time.

LIFE ASSURANCE AND PERMANENT HEALTH SCHEME

7.1 The Company will provide life assurance to you so that in aggregate you are assured for the value of four times annual salary, subject to your being acceptable for insurance at rates normal for your age and subject to the rules of the relevant life assurance arrangements.

7.2 You (your spouse and any unmarried children under 21 (or under 24 if in fulltime education)) are entitled to membership of the Company’s permanent health insurance scheme subject to the rules of the scheme and of any related policy of insurance.

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7.3 If you wish, as an alternative to membership of the Company’s scheme, the Company will bear the costs of you being a member of another permanent health insurance scheme, up to the value of the benefits available to you under the Company’s scheme.

7.4 You are entitled to receive an annual health check at a cost to the Company of no more than £500 (or as increased and notified to you from time to time).

COMPANY CAR

8. The Company will provide you with a car (or cash in lieu if you so elect) in accordance with the terms of the Company’s policy on executive directors’ cars (as notified to you from time to time) for business and personal use and will bear the expenses of taxing, insuring, repairing and maintaining the car. You agree to comply in full with the Company’s policy on executive directors’ cars, failing which the Company may require you to return the car immediately.

CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN CAR

9. You shall be entitled to the non-exclusive use of a chauffeur-driven car provided by the Company (subject to availability) at no cost to you for purposes reasonably connected with the Company’s business or as otherwise approved by the Chief Executive of the Company.

DIRECTORS’ INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE

10. You shall have the benefits of:

(a)

the indemnity contained in regulation 155 of the Company's Articles of Association;

(b)

any similar indemnity in respect of liabilities incurred by Group Company directors in their capacity as such contained in the constitutional documents of any other Group Company for so long as you are a director or officer of such other Group Company; and

(c)

(subject to their terms) any insurance policies which shall be maintained by the Company in respect of liabilities incurred by Group Company directors in their capacity as such.

OTHER BENEFITS

11.1 The Company will pay the school fees in respect of your daughter of a sum of up to £12,000 (net of tax) for the 2000 to 2001 academic year.

11.2 You shall have such other benefits as may be made available to you by the Company from time to time, including but not limited to the use of Reuters products, mobile telephone and other equipment and membership of professional bodies.

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SCHEDULE 2

ADDITIONAL STATUTORY PROVISIONS

EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT 1996

Additional particulars required to be disclosed:

CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT

1. Your period of continuous employment with the Company began on 1 September 1999.

INJURY AND SICKNESS PAY

2. If you are absent from work because of sickness or injury, you must:

(a)

notify the Company as soon as possible on the first morning of absence and inform the Company of your expected date of return;

(b)

complete and return to the Company a self-certification form in respect of the first five working days of any sickness absence;

(c)

provide the Company with a medical certificate from your GP or other registered practitioner for periods of absence of seven days (including weekends) in excess and with medical certificates for each subsequent week of sickness absence;

(d)

if requested by the Company, undergo a medical examination at the expense of the Company with a medical practitioner nominated by the Company; and

(e)

if requested by the Company give written permission to the Company to have access to any medical or health report in its complete form prepared by any health professional on your physical or mental condition.

Subject to the above, you will be entitled at the discretion of the Company to up to 365 days’ sick pay (including statutory sick pay) in any 24 month rolling period. Sick pay will be calculated at your normal rate of pay and benefits.

DISCIPLINARY RULES AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

If at any time you have a grievance relating to the Employment, you may seek redress orally or in writing by, in the first instance, referring the grievance to the Chairman of the Board. If the grievance remains unresolved, you may appeal to the Board and the Board shall deal with the matter by discussion and by majority decision of those present at the relevant meeting of the Board. The Board’s decision shall be final and binding.

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COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS

4. There are no collective agreements with trade unions which directly affect your terms and conditions.

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SCHEDULE 3

COMPETING BUSINESS CONCERNS

AS AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT

Part 1 Competing Business Concerns

Bloomberg X.X.

Xxxxxxx PLC

Quick Corporation of Japan

AOL Time Warner

Telekurs A.G.

SunGard

The Electronic Broking Service

Part 2 Companies with Divisions which compete with Reuters

The Thomson Corporation

The McGraw Hill Companies

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation

Xxxx Elsevier P.L.C./Elsevier N.V.

Part 3 Companies with which Reuters has strategic relationships

Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc.

Yahoo! Inc.

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SIGNED by
for and on behalf of

REUTERS GROUP PLC
in the presence of:-

)
) Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx

)
)

SIGNED as a DEED
and DELIVERED by
XXXXXX XXXXX
in the presence of :-

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)
)
)

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21st June 2001

REUTERS GROUP PLC

XXXXX XXXXXXX

SERVICE AGREEMENT

		Page

1	Definitions	1

2	Duration of employment	1

3	Role, Powers and Duties	1

0	Xxxxxx Xxxxx of Work	2

5	Hours of Work	2

6	Salary and Benefits	2

7	Expenses	3

8	Other Interests	3

9	Inventions and Improvements	4

10	Confidentiality	5

11	Statutory Provisions	6

12	Termination	6

13	Garden Leave and Suspension	10

14	Continuing Obligations	10

15	Waiver	12

16	Amendments	12

17	Notices	12

18	Other Agreements	13

19	Governing Law	13

20	Withholding Taxes	13


SCHEDULE 1:	Other Benefits	14

SCHEDULE 2:	Additional Statutory Provisions	17

SCHEDULE 3:	Competing Business Concerns	19

THIS AGREEMENT is made on 21st June 2001

BETWEEN

(1) REUTERS GROUP PLC registered in England with No. 3296375 whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX0X 0XX (the Company); and

(2) XXXXX XXXXXXX of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX (you).

IT IS AGREED as follows:

DEFINITIONS

1. In this Agreement the following expressions shall have the following meanings:

Board means the board of directors of Reuters Group PLC or a duly constituted committee of the board of directors;

Employment means your employment in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

Group means the Company, any holding company of the Company and any subsidiary of the Company or of any such holding company (with holding company and subsidiary having the meanings given to them by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985). Group Company and Group Companies shall be construed accordingly; and

Remuneration Committee means the remuneration committee of the Board.

DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT

2. The Employment will begin on 1 August 2000 and will continue until terminated in accordance with Clause 12 below.

ROLE, POWERS AND DUTIES

3.1 You will serve the Company as Finance Director (Chief Financial Officer) or in such other capacity of a like status as the Company may require.

3.3 During the Employment you will:

(a)

devote substantially the whole of your working time, attention and abilities to carrying out those duties in a proper, loyal and efficient manner;

(b)

use all reasonable endeavours to promote the interests of the Company and any other Group Company which you may be required to serve under the terms of this Agreement;

(c)

(d)

(e)

comply with the Reuters Share Dealings Code (as notified to you from time to time); and

(f)

have due regard to the provisions of all other policies which are applied to you by the Company, as notified to you from time to time.

NORMAL PLACE OF WORK

HOURS OF WORK

5. You will work the Company’s normal working hours together with such additional hours as may reasonably be required for the proper performance of your duties.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

6.1 You will be paid a salary at such rate as is set out in an annual letter to you from the Company and as confirmed in your annual statement of remuneration and benefits.

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6.2 Your salary will accrue from day to day and be payable in arrears by equal monthly instalments on or about the fifteenth day of each month.

6.5 In addition to the above, you will be entitled to receive those benefits set out in Schedule 1 to this Agreement.

EXPENSES

OTHER INTERESTS

8.1 During the Employment you will be entitled to accept appointments as a non-executive director of companies other than a Group Company subject to:

(a)

the prior written consent of the Chief Executive of the Company (such consent to be confirmed by the Board); and

(b)

the Company’s policy on non-executive directorships (as notified to you from time to time).

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(a)

as a representative or officer of a Group Company;

(b)

as a non-executive director under Clause 8.1;

(c)

by virtue of your being interested in securities not representing more than one per cent. of a company’s issued securities of any class which are either (i) listed on a recognised stock exchange or dealt on an unlisted securities market or an alternative investment market or authorised for quotation in a recognised inter-dealer quotation system or (ii) of a private company whose shares the Chief Executive of the Company has authorised you to hold; or

(d)

with the prior written consent of the Board.

INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

9.1 It will be part of your normal duties at all times:

(a)

(b)

promptly to give to the Company Secretary of the Company full details of any invention or improvement which you may from time to time make or discover in the course of your duties.

Subject to the Patents Xxx 0000, the Company will be entitled free of charge to the sole ownership of any such invention or improvement and to the exclusive use of it.

9.2 You assign to the Company (or to such other Group Company as the Company may direct) all copyrights, designs and other proprietary rights, if any, which may be so assigned in respect of all works and designs created by you or relating to your responsibilities during the Employment for the full term of those rights to the intent that those rights will immediately upon the completion of the relevant work vest with the Company (or with such other Group Company as the Company may direct).

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9.4 You will not do anything knowingly to imperil the validity of any patent or protection or any application for a patent or protection.

9.6 You irrevocably waive in favour of the Company (and in favour of such other Group Company as the Company may direct), its licensees and successors-in-title any and all moral rights in any works (existing or future) which are the subject of copyright made by you in the course of the Employment.

CONFIDENTIALITY

10.1 During and after the termination of the Employment you will at all times keep confidential all private information about the Company and other Group Companies including technical and financial information which you may have acquired while in the employment of the Company or of any other Group Company. You will not use such information for your own benefit or for the benefit of any business not within the Group. You will keep such information confidential to yourself, to other members of the Board and to anybody who needs such information in order to properly discharge his duties to the Company or any Group Company. Such information includes (without limitation) the following:

(a)

(b)

lists and particulars of the suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies and the individual contacts at such suppliers and customers;

(c)

details and terms of the Agreements with suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies;

(d)

secret development manufacturing or production processes and know-how employed by the Company or any other Group Companies or their respective suppliers; and

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(e)

10.4 These restrictions shall not restrict you from using your own personal skill in any business in which you may lawfully be engaged after termination of the Employment.

STATUTORY PROVISIONS

11. Additional provisions, details of which the Company is required by statute to provide you, are set out in Schedule 2 to this Agreement.

TERMINATION

Summary termination

12.1 The Company may terminate the Employment by immediate notice in writing and without payment of any kind other than salary and bonus accrued at the date of termination:

(a)

if in the reasonable opinion of the Board you are guilty of any:

(i)

serious misconduct;

(ii)

persistent misconduct continuing after demand for cessation of such misconduct is delivered in writing by the Board or by the Company Secretary on instruction from the Board; or

(b)

if you commit any material breach of any material provision of this Agreement;

(c)

if you neglect or refuse to carry out any material part of your duties (other than for a reason mentioned in Clause 12.2);

(d)

if you engage in any conduct which brings or is likely to bring the Company or any other Group Companies, in the reasonable opinion of the Board, into disrepute;

(e)

if you become bankrupt or enter into a composition with your creditors or apply for a receiving order or have a receiving order made against you;

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(f)

if you become prohibited by law from being a director; or

(g)

if you terminate your directorship of the Company without the consent of the Board.

Termination by the Company through illness

Termination through loss of directorship

Termination on change of control

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Termination in other circumstances

12.5 Subject to earlier termination in accordance with the provisions of this Clause, the Employment will continue until terminated:

(a)

by the Company giving you 12 months’written notice; or

(b)

by you giving the Company 12 months’written notice,

such notice to expire not earlier than 1 August 2002.

The Company may, in its sole discretion, elect to terminate the Employment before 1 August 2002 and/or without giving you notice or the full period of notice required by 12.5 (a) in which event you will be entitled to receive a payment calculated in accordance with Clause 12.6.

Liquidated damages

12.6 This Clause applies if:

(a)

(b)

you are constructively dismissed which for these purposes shall include (without limitation):

(i)

the assignment to you of any duties inconsistent in any respect with your position (including status, offices, titles and reporting requirement), authority, duties or responsibilities; or

(ii)

(c)

you terminate the Employment under Clause 12.4.

Where this Clause applies, the Company will (subject to the remainder of this Clause) pay to you by way of liquidated damages: (1) if the termination occurs prior to 1 August 2001 an amount equal to 2A-B and (2) if the termination occurs on or after 1 August 2001 an amount equal to A

where A is the aggregate of:

(i)

your annual salary immediately prior to the date of termination of the Employment;

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(ii)

the amount of pension contributions made by the Company on your behalf or to you in the last financial year of the Company preceding the date of termination; and

(iii)

and B is the amount of salary, pension contributions and (if applicable) bonus paid to you or on your behalf whilst your Employment subsisted.

In relation to (iii) above, where there have been fewer than three complete financial years of the Company during the Employment, the averaging shall be by reference to the number of complete financial years which there have been during the Employment. Where there has been less than one complete financial year of the Company during the Employment, (iii) above shall be determined on the basis of the annualised bonus earned by you for the period of the Employment or, if for any reason that is unascertainable, on the basis of the bonus earned by the predecessor Finance Director of the Company in 1999.

In the event that the Employment is terminated in accordance with Clause 12.2, liquidated damages payment under this Clause 12.6 will be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of any benefit payable under the permanent health insurance scheme referred to in Schedule 1, if termination occurs prior to 1 August 2001 for the period to 1 August 2002 and if termination occurs on or after 1 August 2001 for the period of 12 months following the date of termination.

Return of documents

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(a)

all documents, papers and materials and any other property of the Company and of any other Group Companies; and

(b)

all documents or other media on which confidential information about the Company and any other Group Companies is recorded,

in your possession or under your control.

Resignation as a director

Share schemes

GARDEN LEAVE AND SUSPENSION

13.1 The Company may at any time or from time to time suspend you from the performance of your duties and/or exclude you from any of the premises of the Company or of any other Group Company:

(a)

during any period of notice or any part of a period of notice as specified in Clauses 12.4 or 12.5; or

(b)

13.2 The Company is not required to give any reason for suspending or excluding you. Your salary and benefits will not cease to be payable by reason only of such suspension or exclusion.

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CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS

Non-representation

Non-solicitation of employees

(a)

as a director or in a managerial or technical capacity; or

(b)

Non-solicitation of business

Non-dealing

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Non-competition

14.5 You must not, for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment, be engaged in or concerned in any capacity in any business concern which is in competition with the business of the Company or of any other Group Company. A list of such business concerns as at the date of this Agreement is set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to this Agreement. Unless you have the prior approval of the Chairman and the Chief Executive of the Company you may not, for a period of six months after the termination of the Employment, be engaged in or concerned in any capacity in any of the business concerns named in the lists set out in Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 3 of this Agreement. The lists in Schedule 3 may be amended by the Board acting reasonably (provided that the number of business concerns included in Schedule 3 at any one time shall not exceed 15) and each such amendment shall be notified to you from time to time. This Clause shall not restrain you from being engaged or concerned in any business concern in so far as your duties or work relate solely to services or activities of a kind with which you were not concerned to a material extent during the period of six months preceding the date of termination of the Employment.

Extension to other persons

Acknowledgement of reasonableness

No disparaging statements

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WAIVER

15. Any delay or forbearance by the Company in exercising any right of determination of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of it.

AMENDMENTS

16. No amendment or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by you and a director or the Company Secretary of the Company.

NOTICES

17. Any notice required to be served under this Agreement may be given either personally, by fax or by registered post:

(a)

to the Company at its registered office for the time being; or

(b)

to you at the address at the start of this Agreement or your last known address.

OTHER AGREEMENTS

GOVERNING LAW

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WITHHOLDING TAX

AS WITNESS whereof this Agreement has been signed by or on behalf of the parties to it on the day and year first above written.

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SCHEDULE 1

OTHER BENEFITS

BONUS

1. You will be entitled to participate in an annual bonus plan to be administered by the Remuneration Committee. Unless otherwise agreed by the Remuneration Committee, the maximum annual bonus payable under this plan will be an amount up to 70% of your base salary (from 1 July 2001, 100% of your base salary). The criteria relating to your performance and that of the Company which are to be used to determine the amount of the bonus in any year will be laid down by the Remuneration Committee at the commencement of each year and the bonus for that year will be paid as soon as reasonably practicable after the relevant results have been determined. The Remuneration Committee reserves the right to amend the quantitative criteria annually and/or to discontinue the bonus arrangement. On termination of the Employment, other than termination pursuant to Clause 12.1 or termination in respect of which Clause 12.6 applies, you shall be entitled to a pro-rated amount of bonus, being such proportion of average bonus (calculated according to Clause 12.6(iii)) as is the same as the proportion of the last financial year during which the Employment has subsisted.

SHARE OPTION PLANS

2.2 If you are relocated to a country outside the United Kingdom, you are entitled to participate in any equivalent scheme or plan operated by a Group Company in that country.

HOLIDAYS

3.1 The Company’s holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December. In addition to the bank and other public holidays, you will be entitled to 30 working days’ paid holiday in each holiday year. In the first year of the Employment, the annual entitlement will be pro rata based on the holiday year.

3.2 Your annual holiday may be taken at such time or times as are reasonably appropriate having regard to the business needs of the Company.

3.3 Holidays not taken in the year of entitlement will be lost unless carried forward with the agreement of the Chief Executive of the Company.

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PENSION SCHEMES

4.1 You are entitled to join the Reuters UK Retirement Plan subject to the trust deed and rules of the scheme from time to time in force.

4.2 Subject to any limits imposed by the Inland Revenue from time to time, the Company will pay contributions to the Company pension scheme as set out in your annual statement of remuneration and benefits.

4.3 A contracting out certificate is in force in respect of the Employment.

4.4 In addition the Company will contribute 20% of your base salary above the pensions cap imposed by the Inland Revenue from time to time (such contribution to be taxable) to an appropriate retirement benefit scheme of your choice.

LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

DISABILITY INSURANCE

LIFE ASSURANCE AND PERMANENT HEALTH SCHEME

7.1 The Company will provide life assurance to you in addition to that provided under the Reuters UK Retirement Plan so that in aggregate you are assured for the value of four times annual salary, subject to your being acceptable for insurance at rates normal for your age and subject to the rules of the relevant life assurance arrangements.

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7.4 You are entitled to receive an annual health check at a cost to the Company of no more than £500 (or as increased and notified to you from time to time).

COMPANY CAR

CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN CAR

DIRECTORS’ INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE

10. You shall have the benefits of:

(a)

the indemnity contained in regulation 155 of the Company’s Articles of Association;

(b)

(c)

(subject to their terms) any insurance policies which shall be maintained by the Company in respect of liabilities incurred by Group Company directors in their capacity as such.

OTHER BENEFITS

11.

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SCHEDULE 2

ADDITIONAL STATUTORY PROVISIONS

EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT 1996

Additional particulars required to be disclosed:

CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT

1. The Employment is not continuous with any other period of employment with the Company or with any other Group Company.

INJURY AND SICKNESS PAY

2. If you are absent from work because of sickness or injury, you must:

(a)

notify the Company as soon as possible on the first morning of absence and inform the Company of your expected date of return;

(b)

complete and return to the Company a self-certification form in respect of the first five working days of any sickness absence;

(c)

(d)

if requested by the Company, undergo a medical examination at the expense of the Company with a medical practitioner nominated by the Company; and

(e)

DISCIPLINARY RULES AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

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COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS

4. There are no collective agreements with trade unions which directly affect your terms and conditions.

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SCHEDULE 3

COMPETING BUSINESS CONCERNS

AS AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT

Part 1 Competing Business Concerns

Bloomberg X.X.

Xxxxxxx PLC

Quick Corporation of Japan

AOL Time Warner

Telekurs A.G.

SunGard

The Electronic Broking Service

Part 2 Companies with Divisions which compete with Reuters

The Thomson Corporation

The McGraw Hill Companies

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation

Xxxx Elsevier P.L.C./Elsevier N.V.

Part 3 Companies with which Reuters has strategic relationships

Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc.

Yahoo! Inc.

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SIGNED by
for and on behalf of
REUTERS GROUP PLC
in the presence of:-

)
) Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
)
)

SIGNED as a DEED
and DELIVERED by
XXXXX XXXXXXX
in the presence of :-

)
)
)
)

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31st December, 2001

REUTERS GROUP PLC

XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX

SERVICE AGREEMENT

Reuters Remuneration Committee Strictly Confidential – No Further Copying


1.	Definitions	1
2.	Duration of employment	1
3.	Role, Powers and Duties	1
4.	Normal Place of Work	2
5.	Hours of Work	2
6.	Salary and Benefits	2
7.	Expenses	3
8.	Other Interests	3
9.	Inventions and Improvements	4
10.	Confidentiality	5
11.	Statutory Provisions	6
12.	Termination	6
13.	Garden Leave and Suspension	10
14.	Continuing Obligations	10
15.	Waiver	12
16.	Amendments	12
17.	Notices	12
18.	Other Agreements	13
19.	Governing Law	13
20.	Withholding Tax	13


SCHEDULE 1:	Other Benefits	14
SCHEDULE 2:	Additional Statutory Provisions	17
SCHEDULE 3:	Competing Business Concerns	19
SCHEDULE 4:	Pension and Life Assurance Schemes	20

THIS AGREEMENT is made on 31st December, 2001
BETWEEN

(1)

REUTERS GROUP PLC registered in England with No. 3296375 whose registered office is at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX0X 0XX (the Company); and

(2)

XXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXX of Tyseley, Grimms Hill, Great Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, XX00 0XX (you).

IT IS AGREED as follows:

Definitions

1. In this Agreement the following expressions shall have the following meanings:

Board means the board of directors of Reuters Group PLC or a duly constituted committee of the board of directors;

Employment means your employment in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

Group means the Company, any holding company of the Company and any subsidiary of the Company or of any such holding company (with holding company and subsidiary having the meanings given to them by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985). Group Company and Group Companies shall be construed accordingly; and Remuneration Committee means the remuneration committee of the Board.

Duration of employment

2. The Employment will begin on the date of this Agreement and will continue until terminated in accordance with Clause 12 below.

Role, powers and duties

3.1 You will serve the Company as Group Human Resources Director, or in such other capacity of a like status as the Company may require.

3.3 During the Employment you will:

(a)

devote substantially the whole of your working time, attention and abilities to carrying out those duties in a proper, loyal and efficient manner;

(b)

use all reasonable endeavours to promote the interests of the Company and any other Group Company which you may be required to serve under the terms of this Agreement;

(c)

(d)

(e)

comply with the Reuters Share Dealings Code (as notified to you from time to time); and

(f)

have due regard to the provisions of all other policies which are applied to you by the Company, as notified to you from time to time.

Normal place of work

Hours of work

5. You will work the Company’s normal working hours together with such additional hours as may reasonably be required for the proper performance of your duties.

Salary and benefits

6.1 You will be paid a salary at such rate as is set out in an annual letter to you from the Company and as confirmed in your annual statement of remuneration and benefits.

6.2 Your salary will accrue from day to day and be payable in arrears by equal monthly instalments on or about the fifteenth day of each month.

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6.5 In addition to the above, you will be entitled to receive those benefits set out in Schedule 1 to this Agreement.

Expenses

Other interests

8.1 During the Employment you will be entitled to accept appointments as a non-executive director of companies other than a Group Company subject to:

(a)

the prior written consent of the Chief Executive of the Company (such consent to be confirmed by the Board); and

(b)

the Company’s policy on non-executive directorships (as notified to you from time to time).

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(a)

as a representative or officer of a Group Company;

(b)

as a non-executive director under Clause 8.1;

(c)

(d)

with the prior written consent of the Board.

Inventions and improvements

9.1 It will be part of your normal duties at all times:

(a)

(b)

promptly to give to the Company Secretary of the Company full details of any invention or improvement which you may from time to time make or discover in the course of your duties.

Subject to the Patents Xxx 0000, the Company will be entitled free of charge to the sole ownership of any such invention or improvement and to the exclusive use of it.

9.2 You assign to the Company (or to such other Group Company as the Company may direct) all copyrights, designs and other proprietary rights, if any, which may be so assigned in respect of all works and designs created by you or relating to your responsibilities during the Employment for the full term of those rights to the intent that those rights will immediately upon the completion of the relevant work vest with the Company (or with such other Group Company as the Company may direct).

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9.4 You will not do anything knowingly to imperil the validity of any patent or protection or any application for a patent or protection.

9.6 You irrevocably waive in favour of the Company (and in favour of such other Group Company as the Company may direct), its licensees and successors-in-title any and all moral rights in any works (existing or future) which are the subject of copyright made by you in the course of the Employment.

Confidentiality

10.1 During and after the termination of the Employment you will at all times keep confidential all private information about the Company and other Group Companies including technical and financial information which you may have acquired while in the employment of the Company or of any other Group Company. You will not use such information for your own benefit or for the benefit of any business not within the Group. You will keep such information confidential to yourself, to other members of the Board and to anybody who needs such information in order to properly discharge his duties to the Company or any Group Company. Such information includes (without limitation) the following:

(a)

(b)

lists and particulars of the suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies and the individual contacts at such suppliers and customers;

(c)

details and terms of the Agreements with suppliers and customers of the Company or of any other Group Companies;

(d)

secret development manufacturing or production processes and know-how employed by the Company or any other Group Companies or their respective suppliers; and

(e)

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10.4 These restrictions shall not restrict you from using your own personal skill in any business in which you may lawfully be engaged after termination of the Employment.

Statutory provisions

11. Additional provisions, details of which the Company is required by statute to provide you, are set out in Schedule 2 to this Agreement.

Termination

Summary termination

12.1 The Company may terminate the Employment by immediate notice in writing and without payment of any kind other than salary and bonus accrued at the date of termination:

(a)

if in the reasonable opinion of the Board you are guilty of any:

(i)

gross misconduct;

(ii)

persistent serious misconduct continuing after demand for cessation of such misconduct is delivered in writing by the Board or by the Company Secretary on instruction from the Board; or

(b)

if you commit any material breach of any material provision of this Agreement;

(c)

if you neglect or refuse to carry out any material part of your duties (other than for a reason mentioned in Clause 12.2);

(d)

if you engage in any conduct which brings or is likely to bring the Company or any other Group Companies, in the reasonable opinion of the Board, into disrepute;

(e)

if you become bankrupt or enter into a composition with your creditors or apply for a receiving order or have a receiving order made against you;

(f)

if you become prohibited by law from being a director; or

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(g)

if you terminate your directorship of the Company without the consent of the Board.

Termination by the Company through illness

12.2 The Company may terminate the Employment if you are prevented by illness (including mental illness) or injury from attending to your duties for more than 365 days in aggregate in any one period of 24 consecutive calendar months. The Company will not terminate the Employment pursuant to this Clause 12.2 if, as a result, you would or may forfeit any entitlement to benefits under the private healthcare scheme referred to in Schedule 1 unless it has used all reasonable endeavours to try to procure the continuation of cover under that scheme.

Termination through loss of directorship

Termination on change of control

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Termination in other circumstances

12.5

Subject to earlier termination in accordance with the provisions of this Clause, the Employment will continue until terminated:

(a)

by the Company giving you 12 months’written notice; or

(b)

by you giving the Company 12 months’written notice.

Liquidated damages

12.6 This Clause applies if:

(a)

(b)

you are constructively dismissed which for these purposes shall include (without limitation):

(i)

the assignment to you of any duties inconsistent in any respect with your position (including status, offices, titles and reporting requirement), authority, duties or responsibilities; or

(ii)

(c)

you terminate the Employment under Clause 12.4.

Where this Clause applies, the Company will (subject to the remainder of this Clause) pay to you by way of liquidated damages an amount equal to the aggregate of:

(i)

your annual salary immediately prior to the date of termination of the Employment;

(ii)

the amount of pension contributions made by the Company on your behalf or to you in the last financial year of the Company preceding the date of termination; and

(iii)

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In the event that the Employment is terminated in accordance with Clause 12.2, liquidated damages payment under this Clause 12.6 will be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of any benefit payable under the private healthcare scheme referred to in Schedule 1 for the period of 12 months following the date of termination.

Return of documents

(a)

all documents, papers and materials and any other property of the Company and of any other Group Companies; and

(b)

all documents or other media on which confidential information about the Company and any other Group Companies is recorded,

in your possession or under your control.

Resignation as a director

Share schemes

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Garden leave and suspension

13.1

The Company may at any time or from time to time suspend you from the performance of your duties and/or exclude you from any of the premises of the Company or of any other Group Company:

(a)

during any period of notice or any part of a period of notice as specified in Clauses 12.4 or 12.5; or

(b)

13.2 The Company is not required to give any reason for suspending or excluding you. Your salary and benefits will not cease to be payable by reason only of such suspension or exclusion.

Continuing obligations

Non-representation

Non-solicitation of employees

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(a)

as a director or in a managerial or technical capacity; or

(b)

Non-solicitation of business

Non-dealing

Non-competition

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Extension to other persons

Acknowledgement of reasonableness

No disparaging statements

Waiver

15. Any delay or forbearance by the Company in exercising any right of determination of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of it.

Amendments

16. No amendment or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by you and a director or the Company Secretary of the Company.

Notices

17. Any notice required to be served under this Agreement may be given either personally, by fax or by registered post:

(a)

to the Company at its registered office for the time being; or

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(b)

to you at the address at the start of this Agreement or your last known address.

Other Agreements

Governing law

Withholding Tax

AS WITNESS whereof this Agreement has been signed by or on behalf of the parties to it on the day and year first above written.

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SCHEDULE 1
OTHER BENEFITS

Bonus

0.Xxx will be entitled to participate in an annual bonus plan to be administered by the Remuneration Committee. Unless otherwise agreed by the Remuneration Committee, the maximum annual bonus payable under this plan will be an amount up to 100% of your base salary. The criteria relating to your performance and that of the Company which are to be used to determine the amount of the bonus in any year will be laid down by the Remuneration Committee at the commencement of each year and the bonus for that year will be paid as soon as reasonably practicable after the relevant results have been determined. The Remuneration Committee reserves the right to amend the quantitative criteria annually and/or to discontinue the bonus arrangement. On termination of the Employment, other than termination pursuant to Clause 12.1 or termination in respect of which Clause 12.6 applies, you shall be entitled to a pro-rated amount of bonus, being such proportion of average bonus (calculated according to Clause 12.6(iii)) as is the same as the proportion of the last financial year during which the Employment has subsisted.

Share Option Plans

2.2 If you are relocated to a country outside the United Kingdom, you are entitled to participate in any equivalent scheme or plan operated by a Group Company in that country.

Holidays

3.1 The Company’s holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December. In addition to the bank and other public holidays, you will be entitled to 30 working days’ paid holiday in each holiday year.

3.2 Your annual holiday may be taken at such time or times as are reasonably appropriate having regard to the business needs of the Company.

3.3 Holidays not taken in the year of entitlement will be lost unless carried forward with the agreement of the Chief Executive of the Company.

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Pension and life assurance schemes

4. You will continue to be a member of, and the Company shall pay or procure to be paid to you your benefits under Reuters Pension Fund and Reuters Supplementary Pension Scheme, subject to the Trust Deed and Rules governing those schemes and to any Inland Revenue or other applicable limits. A contracting-out certificate is in force in respect of the Employment. The applicable benefits are set out in Schedule 4 to this Agreement.

Long term incentive plan

Incapacity benefit/long term disability benefit

6. You shall be entitled to membership of, and the Company shall pay to you benefits under, the Company’s disability scheme, subject to the terms of that scheme and of any related policy of insurance as in force from time to time.

Medical benefit/private healthcare scheme

7.1 You (your spouse and any unmarried children under 21 (or under 24 if in fulltime education)) are entitled to membership of the Company’s private healthcare scheme subject to the rules of the scheme and of any related policy of insurance.

7.2 If you wish, as an alternative to membership of the Company’s scheme, the Company will bear the costs of you being a member of another private healthcare scheme, up to the value of the benefits available to you under the Company’s scheme.

7.3 You are entitled to receive an annual health check at a cost to the Company of no more than £500 (or as increased and notified to you from time to time).

Company car

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Chauffeur-driven car

Directors’ indemnity and insurance

10. You shall have the benefits of:

(a)

the indemnity contained in regulation 155 of the Company’s Articles of Association;

(b)

(c)

(subject to their terms) any insurance policies which shall be maintained by the Company in respect of liabilities incurred by Group Company directors in their capacity as such.

Other benefits

11. You shall have such other benefits as may be made available to you by the Company from time to time, including but not limited to the use of Reuters products, mobile telephone and other equipment and membership of professional bodies.

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SCHEDULE 2
ADDITIONAL STATUTORY PROVISIONS
EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT 1996

Additional particulars required to be disclosed:

Continuous employment

1. Your period of continuous employment with the Company began on 1st September 1973.

Injury and sickness pay

2. If you are absent from work because of sickness or injury, you must:

(a)

notify the Company as soon as possible on the first morning of absence and inform the Company of your expected date of return;

(b)

complete and return to the Company a self-certification form in respect of the first five working days of any sickness absence;

(c)

(d)

if requested by the Company, undergo a medical examination at the expense of the Company with a medical practitioner nominated by the Company; and

(e)

Disciplinary rules and grievance procedure

3. If at any time you have a grievance relating to the Employment, you may seek redress orally or in writing by, in the first instance, referring the grievance to the Chairman of the Board. If the grievance remains unresolved, you may appeal to the Board and the Board shall deal with the matter by discussion and by majority decision of those present at the relevant meeting of the Board. The Board’s decision shall be final and binding.

Collective Agreements

4. There are no collective agreements with trade unions which directly affect your terms and conditions.

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SCHEDULE 3

COMPETING BUSINESS CONCERNS

AS AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT

Part 1 Competing Business Concerns

Bloomberg X.X.

Xxxxxxx PLC

Quick Corporation of Japan

AOL Time Warner

Telekurs A.G.

SunGard

The Electronic Broking Service

Part 2 Companies with Divisions which compete with Reuters

The Thomson Corporation

The McGraw Hill Companies

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation

Xxxx Elsevier P.L.C./Elsevier N.V.

Part 3 Companies with which Reuters has strategic relationships

Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc.

Yahoo!Inc.

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SCHEDULE 4

PENSION AND LIFE ASSURANCE SCHEMES

Pension: You are entitled at your normal retirement age of 60 to a pension of two thirds of your pensionable salary. If you retire before age 60 you will receive an immediate pension of two thirds of your pensionable salary without reduction.

The total pension payable from your pension arrangements will be subject to Inland Revenue limits.

Pension increases: On retirement you are guaranteed to receive increases in your pension of no less than the increase in the Retail Prices Index, up to a maximum of 5%.

Death in service: A lump sum payable of 4 times basic salary payable plus 4 x the average of taxable emoluments for the three years immediately before death.

A spouse’s pension of two-thirds of your prospective pension is payable (subject to reduction on the advice of the Actuary if the spouse is 16 years or more younger).

Death after retirement: A spouse’s pension of two-thirds of your pension is payable (subject to reduction on the advice of the Actuary if the spouse is 16 years or more younger).

Children’s Allowances: On death in service or death after retirement, the allowances payable in respect of any Qualifying Children will be one quarter of the pension payable to the surviving spouse per child up to a maximum of two children. If there is no surviving spouse one half of the pension that would have been paid to the surviving spouse would be paid as an allowance to each child up to a maximum of two children.

(A Qualifying Child is your child being under the age of 18 or if in full-time education under the age of 21. It also includes an adopted child or a child in relation to which you stand in loco parentis, subject to the approval of the Managing Committee of Reuters Pension Fund.)

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SIGNED by

Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx

)

for and on behalf of

)

REUTERS GROUP PLC

)

in the presence of-

Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx

)

SIGNED as a DEED

)

and DELIVERED by

)

XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX

)

in the presence of :-

Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx

)

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Document Metadata

Table of Contents

23rd July 2001 REUTERS GROUP PLC THOMAS H. GLOCER SERVICE AGREEMENT [LOGO] FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER CONTENTS CLAUSE PAGE

Document Metadata

23rd July 2001 REUTERS GROUP PLC THOMAS H. GLOCER SERVICE AGREEMENT [LOGO] FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER CONTENTS CLAUSE PAGE

23rd July 2001

REUTERS GROUP PLC

XXXXXX X. XXXXXX

SERVICE AGREEMENT

CONTENTS

BETWEEN

DEFINITIONS

DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT

ROLE, POWERS AND DUTIES

NORMAL PLACE OF WORK

HOURS OF WORK

SALARY AND BENEFITS

EXPENSES

OTHER INTERESTS

INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

CONFIDENTIALITY

TERMINATION

Summary dismissal

Termination by the Company through illness or death

Termination by the Company without Cause

Termination through loss of directorship

Termination by you without Good Reason

Termination by you with Good Reason

Cessation Compensation

Mitigation

Return of documents

Resignation as a director

Share schemes

SUSPENSION

CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS

Non-representation

Non-solicitation of employees

Non-solicitation of business

Non-dealing

Non-competition

Extension to other persons

Acknowledgement of reasonableness

No disparaging statements

GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

WAIVER

AMENDMENTS

NOTICES

OTHER AGREEMENTS

GOVERNING LAW

WITHHOLDING OR DEDUCTIONS FOR TAX

SCHEDULE 1

OTHER BENEFITS

BONUS

HOLIDAYS

PENSION PLANS

LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

MEDICAL/DISABILITY INSURANCE

LIFE ASSURANCE

COMPANY CAR

DIRECTORS’ INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE

OTHER BENEFITS

SCHEDULE 2

COMPETING BUSINESS CONCERNSAS AT THE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT

Part 1

Competing Business Concerns as at the date of this Agreement

Part 2

Companies with Divisions which compete with Reuters

Part 3

Companies with which Reuters has Strategic Relationships

SCHEDULE 3

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