Festive Pipe Parade Sets World Record as Thousands March in New York City April 6.

Lifestyle and City Desk Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002

"ScottishPower Tunes of Glory" To Salute Spirit of New York 

Event Benefits Gilda's Club Worldwide, Marie Curie Cancer Care 

A world record will be set on Saturday, April 6 when an expected 10,000 pipers and drummers from 30 countries and every state in U.S. participate in the ScottishPower Tunes of Glory parade in New York City.

The spectacle will include pipers and drummers as young as five years of age, Hollywood celebrities Sean Connery and Ewan McGregor, and pipe bands from countries diverse as Malaysia, New Zealand, Cyprus, Colombia, Australia and Trinidad. Beginning with formal ceremonies at 1:30pm, it will span 32 city blocks from 43rd Street, north on Sixth Avenue, turning west on Central Park South and then north along West Drive in Central Park. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be the Grand Marshal.

ScottishPower Tunes of Glory coincides with both April Cancer Awareness Month and National Tartan Day -- a U.S. celebration of Scotland's ancestral ties with America. It will help raise much needed funding to support people living with cancer on both sides of the Atlantic. Primary beneficiaries will be U.S. -- based Gilda's Club Worldwide and the Scottish branch of UK-based Marie Curie Cancer Care. The event will also celebrate Scotland's traditional musical heritage and strengthen ties with the Scottish diaspora around the globe.

Title sponsor ScottishPower is one of the world's 15 largest utilities with operations in six states in the western United States under the names PacifiCorp, Pacific Power and Utah Power. The co-sponsor is VisitScotland, Scotland's national tourism agency. Also participating as a sponsor is Dewar's Finest Scotch Whisky, the #1 selling scotch in the United States and the most requested brand in bars and restaurants.

For more information about the event, the parade route, or to see a listing of bands who are participating worldwide, visit www.pipefest.com. People around the world can watch the parade live via a special webcam at the VisitScotland website on www.visitscotland.com.

Gilda's Club Worldwide, based in New York City, is the headquarters organization for Gilda's Club, the international network of non-residential homelike meeting-places where men, women and children with cancer and their families and friends come together for social and emotional support. Every Gilda's Club is free and open to all -- regardless of income, type of cancer or stage of illness -- and united by a common program, shared values and core beliefs that stress the importance of community in learning to live with cancer, whatever the outcome. www.gildasclub.org

Marie Curie Cancer Care is the UK's comprehensive late-stage cancer care charity that provides free practical nursing care at home and specialist care through its ten Marie Curie Centers. Working everywhere from remote Scottish islands to the heart of the inner cities, Marie Curie Cancer Care is the largest provider of hospice beds outside the National Health Service. In addition, the charity provides education and training in cancer and palliative care for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, while scientists at the world-renowned Marie Curie Research Institute are at the forefront of research into the causes and treatment of human cancers. www.mariecurie.org.uk.

ScottishPower (NYSE:SPI) is one of the world's largest publicly traded energy companies, and is strongly positioned both operationally and financially to deliver benefits for customers and value for shareholders. The ScottishPower group supplies energy to millions of business and domestic customers across the UK and in the Western United States, through its 1999 merger with PacifiCorp. The group is structured into three divisions to focus on growth in the company's energy business. The three divisions comprise US operations, UK operations and Infrastructure -- the company's wires and related assets in both regions. The company has a current market cap of approximately $10 billion.

ScottishPower's ADS, equivalent to four ordinary shares, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SPI. ScottishPower's ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange. Prices may be accessed on Bloomberg under the symbols SPI and SPW LN, on the Reuter Equities 2000 Service under SPI.N and SPW.L and on Quotron under SPWU.EU.

VisitScotland is a co-sponsor of Tunes of Glory. Tourism is one of Scotland's largest industries; it employs 193,000 people (8% of the workforce and 15% of the Highlands & Islands workforce) and injects pound 3.7 billion into the Scottish economy. The United States is Scotland's largest overseas tourism market, with one overseas visitor in five coming from the U.S. For every pound 1 VisitScotland spends on promotion pound 12 is generated in return on behalf of Scotland's tourism industry. For information on taking a holiday in Scotland go to www.visitscotland.com. Trace your roots at www.ancestralscotland.com. For further information on Scotland's tourist industry go to www.scotexchange.net.

Dewar's Finest Scotch Whisky -- For over 155 years, John and Tommy Dewars' contributions to the blending of scotch whisky, and to the art of marketing and promotion, remain examples of the entrepreneurial spirit that has made Dewar's White Label and Dewar's 12 Year Old two of the finest and most sought after aged scotch whiskies available. Dewar's White Label is the #1 selling scotch in the United States and the most requested brand in bars and restaurants. Among other major accolades, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition recently named Dewar's 12 Year Old the Best Blended Scotch, as well as awarding the blend a Double Gold Medal for the second year in a row.