Director/PDMR Shareholding

UK Coal PLC
18 September 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 18 September 2007,
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): 39,560 shares
David Brocksom (Finance Director): 44,955 shares


William Tinsley (Production Director): 11,625 shares
Norman Haslam (HR & Communications Director): 11,319 shares
Richard Cole (Company Secretary): 10,389 shares
Philip Garner (Commercial Contracts Director): 9,518 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 beneficially entitled to
the shares comprised in the awards is 18 September 2010, which is the third
anniversary of the date on which the awards were granted.



Contact:

Richard Cole, Company Secretary                                01302 755043



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