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Exhibit 4.2

DATED 23 February 2000

SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT

relating to


a Revolving Credit Facility of up


to £750,000,000


to

BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING GROUP PLC

Guaranteed by

CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF


BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING GROUP PLC


Arrangers

TORONTO DOMINION BANK EUROPE LIMITED


and


CITIBANK, N.A.


Agent

THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK


Norton Rose



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Contents

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|Clause                |  |                                       |   | Page
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|1                     |  | Interpretation                        |   |      | 1 | 
|2                     |  | Amendments to the Principal Agreement |   |      | 1 | 
|3                     |  | Representations and warranties        |   |      | 3 | 
|4                     |  | Expenses                              |   |      | 4 | 
|5                     |  | Effective Date                        |   |      | 4 | 
|6                     |  | Miscellaneous                         |   |      | 5 | 
|7                     |  | Governing Law                         |   |      | 5 | 
|Schedule 1 Guarantors |  |                                       | 6 |     



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THIS SUPPLEMENTAL
AGREEMENTis dated 23 February,
2002 and made BETWEEN:



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|(1) | BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING GROUP
    PLCas Borrower;                                                                                                                                 
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|(2) | THOSE SUBSIDIARIES OF BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING
    GROUP PLCwhose names and registered
    offices or principal places of business are set out in
    schedule 1 as Guarantors; and
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|(3) | THE TORONTO-DOMINION
    BANKas Agent (in accordance with
    clause 18.2 (Amendment; waivers) of the Principal
    Agreement).                                                    

WHEREAS:



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|(A) | This Supplemental Agreement is supplemental to an
    agreement dated 29th June 1999, made between British Sky
    Broadcasting Group plc as Borrower (1), the companies whose
    names and registered offices are set out in schedule 1
    thereto as Guarantors (2), Toronto Dominion Bank Europe
    Limited and Citibank, N.A. as Arrangers (3), the Banks as
    lending Banks (4) and The Toronto-Dominion Bank as Agent
    (5), whereby the Banks agreed to make available to the
    Borrower a revolving credit facility of up to £750,000,000
    upon the terms and subject to the conditions therein contained
    (the agreement being the Principal Agreement).
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|(B) | The Borrower and each of the Guarantors have
    requested that the Principal Agreement is amended to the extent
    set out in this Supplemental Agreement.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

NOW IT IS HEREBY
AGREEDas follows:



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|1 | Interpretation



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|1.1 | Definitions in Principal Agreement



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| | Unless the context otherwise requires and save
    as mentioned below, words and expressions defined in the
    Principal Agreement shall have the same meanings when used in
    this Supplemental Agreement. In this Supplemental Agreement, the
    expression the Supplemental Agreement shall
    mean this Supplemental Agreement and the expression the
    Effective Date shall have the meaning given
    to it in clause 5.1.



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|1.2 | Interpretation of Principal Agreement



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| | References in the Principal Agreement to
    this Agreement shall, with effect from the
    Effective Date and unless the context otherwise requires, be
    references to the Principal Agreement as amended by this
    Supplemental Agreement and words such as
    herein, hereof,
    hereunder, hereafter,
    hereby, and hereto, where
    they appear in the Principal Agreement shall be construed
    accordingly.



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|1.3 | Incorporation of certain references



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| | Clauses 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 of the Principal
    Agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated in this
    Supplemental Agreement in full, mutatis mutandis.



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|2 | Amendments to the Principal
    Agreement



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| | Clause 1.2 of the Principal Agreement
    shall, with effect from the Effective Date, be amended as
    follows:



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| | (a) | the definition of Original Accounting
    Principles shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced
    by the following:

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| | Original Accounting
    Principles means, in respect of all periods ending on
    or before 31 December 1999 those accounting principles,
    standards and practices which were used in the preparation of
    the consolidated audited financial statements of the Group as at
    30 June 1998 and, in respect of all periods thereafter,
    those accounting principles, standards and practices which were
    used in the preparation of the consolidated audited financial
    statements of the Group as at 30 June 1999 and, to the
    extent that they do not conflict with the relevant principles,
    standards and practices, such other accounting principles,
    standards and practices as were generally acceptable in England
    and Wales on 30 June 1998 or 30 June 1999 (as the case
    may be).



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| | (b) | the definition of the EBITDA
    shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced by the following:



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| | EBITDA means, in respect of a
    Half Yearly Period, the consolidated operating profit of the
    Group:



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| | (1)(a) | in relation to each Half Yearly Period in each
    financial year as shown in the relevant unaudited consolidated
    profit and loss account provided to the Agent under this
    Agreement before:



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| | (i)  | depreciation; and                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
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| | (ii) | amortisation of goodwill but, for the avoidance
    of doubt, not before any charge for the amortisation of any cost
    or expense incurred in relation to the acquisition of rights to
    or in connection with any programmes or films;



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| | but adjusted by excluding;



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| | (A) | any EBITDA (whether positive or negative and as
    determined in accordance with this definition) of any Special
    Purpose Subsidiary;                                                                                                            
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| | (B) | the provision for costs associated with the bid
    made in 1998 by the Group for Manchester United PLC as shown in
    the consolidated profit and loss account of the Group for the
    financial year ended 30 th June 1999;                      
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| | (C) | the exceptional provision for costs associated
    with transition of existing analogue subscribers as shown in the
    consolidated profit and loss account of the Group in respect of
    the financial year ended on 30th June 1999; and          
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| | (D) | any exceptional provision for costs associated
    with the termination of analogue services not falling within (C)
    above provided the same do not exceed £100,000,000 in
    aggregate and such provision is made before 30th June 2003;
    and



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| | (b) | in relation to the second Half Yearly Period in
    each financial year only, as shown in the relevant audited
    consolidated profit and loss account provided to the Agent under
    this Agreement before the items referred to in (i) and
    (ii) above and as adjusted by the items referred to in (A)
    to (D) inclusive above in relation to the financial year ended
    30th June 1999 and in (A) and (D) above in relation to
    each subsequent financial year and (in each case) by the
    deduction of the amount calculated under (a) above in
    relation to the first Half Yearly Period in such financial year;
    and
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| | (2) | in addition to (1) above, in relation to
    each Half Yearly Period from (and including) 30 June 2000
    to (and including)
    30 June 2001 adjusted by adding back (to the extent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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| | deducted in calculating consolidated operating
    profit) the direct costs of subsidising digital set-top boxes
    and related equipment provided to digital subscribers and the
    cost of installation of digital services to such subscribers
    (net of any amount paid in respect of such installation by such
    subscribers),

having made such adjustments and making such
further adjustments as may be appropriate in the opinion of the
auditors of the Borrower in order that all such amounts are
calculated in accordance with the Original Accounting
Principles;.



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|3 | Representations and warranties



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|3.1 | Each Obligor represents and warrants to each of
    the Banks, Arrangers and Agent (the Borrower in respect of
    itself and its Subsidiaries and each other Obligor in respect of
    itself only) that:



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|3.1.1 | Corporate power



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| | the Borrower and each Guarantor has power to
    execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this
    Supplemental Agreement and all necessary corporate, shareholder
    and other action has been taken to authorise the execution,
    delivery and performance of this Supplemental Agreement;



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|3.1.2 | Binding obligations



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| | this Supplemental Agreement constitutes valid
    and legally binding obligations of the Borrower and each of the
    Guarantors enforceable in accordance with its terms to the
    extent permitted by applicable law;



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|3.1.3 | No conflict with other obligations



| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
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| | the execution and delivery of, the performance
    of its obligations under, and compliance with the provisions of,
    this Supplemental Agreement by the Borrower and each of the
    Guarantors will not (i) contravene, in any material
    respect, any existing applicable law, statute, rule or
    regulation or any judgment, decree or permit to which the
    Borrower and each Guarantor is subject, (ii) conflict with,
    or result in any breach of any of the terms of, or constitute a
    default under, any agreement or other instrument to which the
    Borrower or any of the Guarantors is a party or is subject or by
    which it or any of its property is bound, (iii) contravene
    or conflict with any provision of the Borrowers or any of
    the Guarantors constitutive documents or (iv) result
    in the creation or imposition of or oblige the Borrower or any
    of the Guarantors to create any Encumbrance on the
    Borrowers or any of the Guarantors undertakings,
    assets, rights or revenues;



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|3.1.4 | Consents obtained



| |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
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| | every consent, authorisation, licence or approval
    of, or registration with or declaration to, governmental or
    public bodies or authorities or courts required by the Borrower
    or any of the Guarantors to authorise, or required by the
    Borrower or any of the Guarantors in connection with, the
    execution, delivery, validity, enforceability or admissibility
    in evidence of this Supplemental Agreement or the performance by
    the Borrower or any of the Guarantors of their respective
    obligations under this Supplemental Agreement has been obtained
    or made and is in full force and effect in all material respects
    and there has been no default in the observance of the material
    conditions or restrictions (if any) imposed in, or in connection
    with, any of the same;

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3.1.5 No filings required



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| | it is not necessary to ensure the legality,
    validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this
    Supplemental Agreement that it or any other instrument be
    notarised, filed, recorded, registered or enrolled in any court,
    public office or elsewhere in any Relevant Jurisdiction or that
    any stamp, registration or similar tax or charge be paid in any
    Relevant Jurisdiction on or in relation to this Supplemental
    Agreement and this Supplemental Agreement is in proper form for
    its enforcement in the courts of each Relevant Jurisdiction;

3.2    Repetition



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| | The representations and warranties in
    clause 3.1 shall be deemed to be repeated by the Borrower
    and each of the Guarantors on and as of each date of drawing of
    an Advance as if made with reference to the facts and
    circumstances existing on each such day.

4      Expenses

4.1    Expenses



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| | The Borrower shall pay to Agent within
    14 days of demand all reasonable expenses (including legal
    fees) properly incurred by the Arrangers and the Agent in
    connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of
    this Supplemental Agreement.

4.2    Stamp and other duties
(general)



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| | The Borrower shall pay all stamp, documentary,
    registration or other like duties or Taxes (including any such
    duties or Taxes payable by, or assessed on, each of the Banks,
    Arrangers and Agent) imposed in the UK or in any other
    jurisdiction in which any party to this Agreement (other than
    the Banks, the Arrangers and the Agent) is incorporated on or in
    connection with this Supplemental Agreement and shall indemnify
    each of the Banks, Arrangers and Agent against any liability
    arising by reason of any delay or omission by the Borrower to
    pay such duties or Taxes.

5      Effective
Date

5.1    Conditions precedent
documentation



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| | The amendments to be made to the Principal
    Agreement by this Supplemental Agreement shall take effect on
    and from the date (the Effective Date) on
    which the Agent notifies the other parties to this Supplemental
    Agreement that the Agent has received the documents referred to
    in (a), (b) and (c) below in form and substance satisfactory to
    it:



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| | (a) | a certificate from the Company Secretary or a
    Director of the relevant company attaching the Memorandum and
    Articles of Association or equivalent constitutional documents
    of the Borrower and each of the Guarantors or confirmation that
    the same have not been amended from the forms delivered to the
    Agent pursuant to the Principal Agreement;
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| | (b) | a copy, certified as a true copy by the Company
    Secretary or Director of the Borrower and each of the
    Guarantors, of resolutions of the Board of Directors of that
    Borrower or Guarantor evidencing approval of this Supplemental
    Agreement and authorising its appropriate officers to execute
    and deliver the same; and                           

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| | (c) | specimen signatures, authenticated by the Company
    Secretary or a Director of the relevant company of the persons
    authorised in the resolutions of the Board of Directors referred
    to in paragraph (b), above.



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|6 | Miscellaneous



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|6.1 | Continuation of Principal Agreement



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| | Save as amended by this Supplemental Agreement,
    the provisions of the Principal Agreement shall continue in full
    force and effect and the Principal Agreement and the relevant
    provisions of this Supplemental Agreement shall be read and
    construed as one instrument.



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|6.2 | Counterparts



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| | This Supplemental Agreement may be executed in
    any number of counterparts and by the different parties on
    separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
    delivered shall be an original but all counterparts shall
    together constitute one and the same instrument.



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|7 | Governing Law



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| | This Supplemental Agreement shall be governed by
    English law.

IN WITNESSwhereof
the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Agreement to be
duly executed the day and year first above written.

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Schedule 1

Guarantors

British Sky Broadcasting Limited

Grant Way

Isleworth


Middlesex TW7 5QD


No. 2906991

Sky Subscribers Services Limited

Grant Way

Isleworth


Middlesex TW7 5QD


No. 2340150

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The Borrower

SIGNEDfor and on
behalf of

BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING


GROUP PLC


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|by: | /s/ M. D. Stewart




The Guarantors

SIGNEDfor and on
behalf of

BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING


LIMITED


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|by: | /s/ M. D. Stewart




SIGNED for and on behalf of

SKY SUBSCRIBERS SERVICES


LIMITED


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|by: | /s/ M. D. Stewart




The Agent

SIGNEDfor and on
behalf of

THE TORONTO-DOMINION


BANK


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|by: | /s/ Julie Evans




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