Starvest plc : Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director's Dealing - 17 February 2012

Starvest plc ('Starvest' or the 'Company'), the provider of finance to fledgling businesses with a focus on mineral exploration and development, announces that it received notification on 17 February 2012, that Mrs Phung Scutt, wife of the director Anthony C R Scutt, sold 125,000 Ordinary shares in the Company on 16 February 2012 at a price of 9.5 pence per share.  

As a result of this sale, the directors' interests in the Ordinary Shares of the Company are as follows:

	Shares now held	Percentage of issued ordinary share capital
Ronald Bruce Rowan	10,170,000	27.40%
Anthony Charles Raby Scutt	235,000	0.63%
John Watkins	1,235,000	3.33%

In addition to their interests in the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company stated above, the Directors remain interested in the following options to subscribe for the Company's Ordinary Shares:

	Options outstanding	Exercise price
Ronald Bruce Rowan	1,750,000	15 pence
Anthony Charles Raby Scutt	350,000	15 pence
John Watkins	300,000	5 pence
John Watkins	100,000	6 pence
John Watkins	875,000	15 pence

Enquiries to:

Bruce Rowan, Chairman 020 7486 3997 or John Watkins, Finance Director 07768 512404; [e-mail]

Gerry Beaney, Colin Aaronson or David Hignell, Grant Thornton Corporate Finance 020 7383 5100

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