Director Shrhlding- Amendment

Trinity Mirror PLC
23 April 2001


ISSUERS AMENDMENT

The issuer has made the following amendment to the Director Shareholding
announcement released on 23rd April 2001 at 12:08 under RNS No 4436C.

The information previously released stated an option price of '452 pence', this
should read '452.5 pence'.  

All other details remain unchanged.

The full corrected version is shown below.


Following the approval of a new executive share option scheme by shareholders in
2000, Trinity Mirror plc granted on 20th April 2001 options over ordinary 10p
shares to the following directors, at an option price of 452.5 pence (the
average of the middle market quotations of the three days preceding 20th April
2001).

Name of Director     No. of shares over      Total number of shares over
                     which option granted    which options held following
                                             this notification

C P Graf                  194806                    504856
M Ewing                   140,441                   256674
M D Haysom                137,016                   283486
S D Parker                137,016                   305439
J Sinyor                  154,696                   308881
P A Vickers               140,441                   309121

Options will only become exercisable on satisfaction of stretching EPS and total
shareholder return performance targets

The period during which the options are potentially exercisable is:

20.4.2004 - 19.4.2011

No amount was paid for the grant of the options.