Holding(s) in Company

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| TR-1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares |
+-------------------------------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|                                                |Starvest Plc                 |
|1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying     |                             |
|issuer of existing shares to which voting rights|                             |
|are attached:                                   |                             |
+------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
|                                                                              |
|2. Reason for notification (yes/no)                                           |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+
|                                                                      |  No   |
|An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                           |       |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+
|                                                                      |  No   |
|An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result  |       |
|in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are|       |
|attached                                                              |       |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+
|                                                                      |  No   |
|An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                      |       |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+
|                                                                      |  Yes  |
|Other (please specify): Amendment                                     |       |
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-------+
|3. Full name of person(s) subject to|Barclays Plc                             |
|notification obligation:            |                                         |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if  |                                         |
|different from 3):                  |                                         |
|                                    |                                         |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|5. Date of transaction (and date on |                   N/A                   |
|which the threshold is crossed or   |                                         |
|reached if different):              |                                         |
|                                    |                                         |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|6. Date on which issuer notified:   |               8 Sept 2010               |
|                                    |                                         |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed |                   N/A                   |
|or reached:                         |                                         |
+------------------------------------+-----------+---------------------+-------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|8: Notified Details                                                           |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|A: Voting rights attached to shares                                           |
|                                                                              |
+--------------+-----------------+---------------------------------------------+
|Class/type of |    Situation    |  Resulting situation after the triggering   |
|shares        | previous to the |                 transaction                 |
|If possible   |   triggering    |                                             |
|use ISIN code |   transaction   |                                             |
+--------------+--------+--------+-------+------------------+------------------+
|              |  Number|  Number| Number| Number of voting |  Percentage of   |
|              |      of|      of|     of|      rights      |  voting rights   |
|              |  shares|  voting| shares|                  |                  |
|              |        |  rights|       |                  |                  |
+--------------+--------+--------+-------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
|              |        |        |       |      |           |      |           |
|              |        |        |       |Direct|   Indirect|Direct|   Indirect|
+--------------+--------+--------+-------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
|GB0009619817  |     N/A|     N/A|       |      |      Below|      |      Below|
|              |        |        |       |      | notifiable|      | notifiable|
|              |        |        |       |      |  threshold|      |  threshold|
+--------------+--------+--------+-------+------+-----------+------+-----------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|B: Financial Instruments                                                      |
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                          |
|                                                                              |
+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------+------------+
|Type of      |   Expiration|     Exercise/|  No. of voting rights|  Percentage|
|financial    |         date|    conversion|  that may be acquired|   of voting|
|instrument   |             |   period/date|    (if the instrument|      rights|
|             |             |              |  exercised/converted)|            |
+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------+------------+
|             |             |              |                      |            |
+-------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------+------------+


+----------------------------------------------------------+
| Total (A+B)                                              |
|                                                          |
+----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|  Number of voting rights   | Percentage of voting rights |
+----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|  Below notifiable interest |  Below notifiable interest  |
+----------------------------+-----------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or   |
|the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                              |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Proxy Voting: Not applicable                                         |
|                                                                      |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+---+
| 10. Name of proxy holder:                                        |   |
|                                                                  |   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+---+
| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:     |   |
|                                                                  |   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+---+
| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: |   |
|                                                                  |   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+---+

+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|13. Additional information:|Please be advised that the interest disclosed in  |
|                           |Barclays previous Notification of Major Interests |
|                           |in Shares was subject to an exemption within the  |
|                           |Disclosure and Transparency Rules and therefore   |
|                           |did not require notification. Consequently,       |
|                           |Barclays plc does not have a reportable interest  |
|                           |in this issuer.                                   |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|14 Contact name:           |Geoff Smith                                       |
|                           |                                                  |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|15. Contact telephone name:|0207 116 2913                                     |
|                           |                                                  |
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