Director/PDMR Shareholding

UK Coal PLC
02 March 2007

                          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 Disclosure Rule 3.1.4, we advise that on 2 March 2007,
conditional awards of ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company were made
under the LTIP rules to the following Directors and members of the Executive
Management Committee:



Garold Spindler (Chief Executive): 56,452 shares
Jon Lloyd (Property Director): 27,789 shares
Christopher Mawe (Finance Director): 31,235 shares



William Tinsley (Production Director): 18,373 shares
Norman Haslam (HR & Communications Director): 17,891 shares
Richard Cole (Company Secretary): 16,421 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 be become beneficially
entitled to the shares comprised in the awards is 2 March 2010, which is the
third anniversary of the date on which the awards were granted.



Contact 
Richard Cole, Company Secretary               01302 755 043


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