Director/PDMR Shareholding

Ascent Resources PLC
05 July 2006

Ascent Resources plc

05 July 2006



                              Ascent Resources plc
                          ('Ascent' or 'the Company')


                               Director's dealing



Jonathan Legg, a director of the Company, has today purchased 160,000 ordinary
shares in the Company at a price of 12.5p per share. Following this purchase, he
is interested in 533,526 ordinary shares in the Company, representing 0.21 per
cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.



5 July 2006





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