Directorate Change

Retail Stores PLC
11 November 2002


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11th November 2002



                         RETAIL STORES PLC: BOARD CHANGE



Retail Stores plc ('Retail Stores'), owner of the Liberty retailing business,
today announces that, due to continuing ill health, Fiona Harrison has resigned
her position as a Non-Executive Director of Retail Stores with immediate effect


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Contact:

   Richard Balfour-Lynn, Chairman, Retail Stores plc.   Tel: [phone]

   Baron Phillips, Baron Phillips Associates.           Tel: [phone]



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