Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
19 October 2005


19 October 2005

Immediate Release

                                            PayPoint plc ('the Company')

As a result of transactions on 18 October 2005 by the PayPoint plc Share Incentive Plan (an Inland Revenue approved
all employee share purchase plan), the executive directors and persons discharging management responsibility of the
Company have the following interests as a result of their personal participation in the Plan:- 


                                                                                                                      
                        Partnership Shares purchased     Matching Shares awarded on     Total number of Partnership,  
                         on 18 October at £3.29 per       18 October at £3.29 per       Matching and Dividend Shares  
                                   share                           share                  held on 18 October 2005  
   
  Dominic Taylor                     38                             38                             1208               
  Tim Watkin-Rees                    38                             38                             1208               
  George Earle                       38                             38                             1177               
  Susan Court                        38                             38                             1202               
  David Steed                        38                             38                             1196               
  Jonathan Moon                      33                             33                             1066               
  Lorraine Buhagiar                  31                             31                              973               
  Barry Skillett                     38                             38                             1196               
  Mark Astbury                       38                             38                             1202               
  John Lee                           38                             38                              160               
  Mike Igoe                          38                             38                              160               




In accordance with the rules of the Plan the persons named above have been awarded the Matching Shares on the basis
of one Matching Share for each Partnership Share. 
The beneficial ownership of the Matching Shares will pass to the persons listed above in three years time subject to
continued employment and the retention of the underlying Partnership Shares. 


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