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Hi, thanks for Thomas Grace's email. I have sent him the message sent to me by Hargreaves. There may not be anything he can do apart from verify that information with HL but it's important that he knows about it.

And now we wait.

To add some reassurance, I have received this as well as a rather panicked secure message from HL stating that it was Shanta that had told them to nullify the previous votes BUT that on seeking clarification elsewhere, they are assured that previous votes WILL be counted and that if we have voted more than once, only one vote will be counted.

Mine's a gin and tonic tonight. Well done everybody. We did all we could.

That last part's a shame but there we are - we are more honest than the board!

I have tweeted an alert to SHG private investors notifying them that their previous votes are null and void and asking them to vote again by today's deadline. Please re-tweet. @daphnemorgan12

All my votes have been re-set to as though I have not voted.

I've re-voted all our votes again on HL and ii. Thinking logically, whilst there has clearly been a successful attempt to withhold information from private investors, this voting fiasco cannot be due to anything the company is doing. It appears that several (all?) broker platforms are affected. To me, this says more about deeply concerning issues with electronic voting.

By the way, some brokers are stating that the voting cut-off is 6pm today, others the much earlier 2pm. What are others here seeing? I'll check again later today.

Re-tweeted.

Incidentally, this has happened on both HL and ii.

Unbelievably, my shares plus family accounts appear to have had votes vanish so thank you to the various people on here who keep prompting us to check. Despite 'Instruction Given' notifications, when I clicked through each one, six had no response. I've voted 1,499,200 shares once again across family members. I've lost count of how many times I have done this - 4 or I think. I'll check again tomorrow.

I may claim credit because I sent them a zinger by secure message on Sunday describing their inadequacy vis a vis other platforms as deeply concerning and that I will consider moving my family's accounts. :)

I'm at the stage where I am looking forward to it being over tbh. The opportunity cost of continuing to hold Shanta shares over the past three months has been quite considerable. Here's hoping we can achieve a satisfactory outcome but I'm ready to move on.

Thank you for the heads-up. I thought that surely I had no need to vote again, that I was up-to-date, but no, there are indeed more votes required. This feels manipulated. I wish there were some form of public censure and redress as there is little likelihood that PIs have come back and checked their platforms and voted again.

Institutional ownership is needed to move the share price. Unfortunately, it's too small as yet.

I'll contact them as well after you have posted your email here with their email address. Naturally I won't use the same wording as yours.

Following on CeeD's post, you may already be aware but just to stress, the 29th is Good Friday, a bank holiday, and 2nd April is the first working day after Easter. This is incredibly underhand as many people go away and / or do not bother to look at emails or their investing accounts over bank holiday periods.

Me too.

You have put in a good deal of work on this Hounddog. Thank you. That's an excellent email.

'Since no announcement detailing the timetable has been made, I am wondering if A J Bell has jumped the gun? The message expresses an expectation only; not a certainty.'

Possibly, but that does not explain why HL has removed people's votes and put up the statement 'No instruction given'. in investors' accounts.

I have flagged that very point with the Court. Stockopedia records c.11.73% held at ii and a further 6.82% of Shanta shares at HL.

Why are they saying 'take no action' when we are clearly being asked to vote again?

I've asked my family members to also email the Court. We've all voted against, again. It's really underhand behaviour.

Interesting. Interactive Investor is stating the deadline is a day later. I'll vote today to be on the safe side. I've also written to the Court.