Exercise of options

Wilmington Group Plc
31 January 2008



Wilmington Group Plc
31 January 2008

Wilmington Group plc ('Wilmington' or the 'Company') announces that options held
by Colin Bailey-Wood, a former senior manager of businesses disposed of by the
Company on 14 August 2007, over 100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the
Company have today been exercised. These options were all exercisable at 146.5p
and were private options granted by certain individuals who were all directors
of the Company at the time of grant, namely Rory Conwell, Ahmed Zahedieh and
Brian Gilbert, over shares in the Company held by them. The grant was announced
to the market on 28 February 2002. Rory Conwell continues to be an executive
director of the Company and Ahmed Zahedieh is company secretary.

Colin Bailey-Wood was a senior manager of the businesses that the Company
disposed of on 14 August 2007, and the terms on which the options were granted
provide that Colin has 6 months from the date of such sale to exercise such
options, which is up until 14 February 2008. Colin is no longer employed by the
Company or any of its subsidiaries and as such is not subject to the provisions
of the Model Code under the Listing Rules of the UKLA ('Model Code').

The Company is currently in a close period until the release of its interim
numbers at the end of February 2008. The exercise of the options by Colin
Bailey-Wood means that Rory Conwell and Ahmed Zahedieh are obliged to sell
shares in the Company to him. The sale by them of these shares would technically
be caught by the Model Code as they are both 'restricted persons' within the
meaning of the Model Code and the Company is in a close period. However, as the
exercise of the options is outside of their control and, if Colin was not
allowed to exercise such options he would be time barred from doing so and hence
would lose the benefit of such options, the Company has deemed it appropriate in
these circumstances to permit Rory Conwell and Ahmed Zahedieh to sell shares in
the Company held by them to Colin Bailey-Wood pursuant to the exercise of such
options.

As a result of this, the details of the shares held and the remaining options
granted over such shares, by Rory Conwell and Ahmed Zahedieh are as follows:

                                                  Rory Conwell    Ahmed Zahedieh
Total number of shares in issue in
which director/co secretary is interested
(including shares subject to option)                 3,909,356         1,916,805

Share number as a percentage of ordinary
issued share capital                                     4.64%             2.27%

Number of ordinary shares over which
options granted                                         28,571            14,286

Such number as a percentage of the
Ordinary issued share capital                            0.03%             0.02%

Enquiries:

Ahmed Zahedieh
Company Secretary                                                  0207 422 6800



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