Holding(s) in Company

Ascent Resources PLC
05 April 2006

                              Ascent Resources plc

                               Holding in Company

The Company was notified yesterday that, as of 29 March 2006, Marlborough Fund
Managers Limited managed funds that were interested in 6.94 per cent. of the
issued share capital of the Company.



5 April 2006


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