Directorate Change

Rio Tinto PLC
06 March 2008

Rio Tinto plc
6 March 2008


APPOINTMENT OF SIR DAVID CLEMENTI 
FOREIGN & COLONIAL INVESTMENT TRUST PLC'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Rio Tinto announces that Sir David Clementi, non-executive director of Rio Tinto
plc and Rio Tinto Limited, will join the Board of Foreign & Colonial Investment
Trust PLC as a non-executive director, effective 23 May 2008.

This announcement is made pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.14R.

For further information, please contact:

Media Relations, London                            Media Relations, Australia
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Investor Relations, London                         Investor Relations, Australia
Nigel Jones                                        Dave Skinner
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                                                   Investor Relations, North America
David Ovington                                     Jason Combes
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