Director Shareholding

On-Line PLC
08 April 2005

On-line Plc (the 'Company')



Directors' Shareholdings



The Company announces that on 8 April 2005 Michael Hodges, Clement Chambers,
David Crump and Jonathan Mullins as part of the rearrangement of their personal
pensions and shareholdings, each sold the number of On-line ordinary shares
detailed in the table below to their own personal SIPPs.



Following the transactions, each of Messrs Hodges, Chambers, Crump and Mullins
remains beneficially interested in the same number of On-line ordinary shares as
before the transactions, the total numbers of which are given below.


Name                      Number of shares sold into          Total shareholding   % of issued share capital
                                                SIPP
Michael Hodges                                12,500                   1,364,572                      17.81%
Clement Chambers                               3,400                   1,504,364                      19.63%
David Crump                                   58,550                     109,750                       1.43%
Jonathan Mullins                              12,500                     164,486                       2.15%






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