Director Shareholding

UK Coal PLC 7 March 2002 SCHEDULE 11 NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS 1) Name of company UK COAL PLC 2) Name of director Garold Spindler 3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 or in respect of a non-beneficial interest As in Paragraph 2 above 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them (if notified) As in Paragraph 2 above 5) Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected with the Director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s) N/A 6) Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions please indicate whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non discretionary Discretionary 7) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired 265,000 8) Percentage of issued class N/A 9) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed N/A 10) Percentage of issued class N/A 11) Class of security Ordinary 12) Price per share 98p 13) Date of transaction 06/03/02 14) Date company informed 06/03/02 15) Total holding following this notification 265,000 16) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification N/A If a director has been granted options by the company please complete the following boxes 17) Date of grant N/A 18) Period during which or date on which exercisable N/A 19) Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option N/A 20) Description of shares or debentures involved: class, number N/A 21) Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price is to be fixed at time of exercise N/A 22) Total number of shares or debentures over which options held following this notification N/A 23) Any additional information N/A 24) Name of contact and telephone number for queries Mel Garness - 01302 751751 25) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification Date of Notification......07/03/02....... This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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