Director/PDMR Shareholding

Ascent Resources PLC
06 April 2006


                              Ascent Resources plc


                             Director shareholding


Jonathan Legg, a director of the Company, has today purchased 210,526 ordinary
shares in the Company at a price of 9.5p per share. Following this purchase, he
is interested in 373,526 ordinary shares in the Company, representing 0.15 per
cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.


6 April 2006



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