Director/PDMR Shareholding

UK Coal PLC
23 April 2008

                          UK COAL PLC (the 'Company')



Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial
responsibilities and Connected Persons



Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP)


To comply with DTR 3.1.4, the Company advises that, on 22 April 2008,
conditional awards of ordinary shares of 1p each were made under the LTIP rules
to the following Directors and members of the Executive Management Committee:


Jon Lloyd (Chief Executive): 82,599 shares
David Brocksom (Finance Director): 51,690 shares


William Tinsley (Production Director): 34,361 shares
Norman Haslam (HR & Communications Director): 33,920 shares
Richard Cole (Company Secretary): 31,938 shares
Philip Garner (Commercial Contracts Director): 30,837 shares


The number of shares stated is the maximum available to the persons named above
on satisfaction of the performance target in full, subject to the addition of
further shares representing the notional re-investment of dividends. The
earliest date on which the persons named above would become beneficially
entitled to the shares comprised in the awards is 22 April 2011, which is the
third anniversary of the date on which the awards were granted.



Contact:

Richard Cole, Company Secretary                                01302 755043




                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange