Holding(s) in Company

Acal PLC
22 December 2005

                             SCHEDULE 10
 
             NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     ACAL PLC


2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     ABERFORTH PARTNERS


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

     


4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

     SEE BELOW


5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

     NOT SPECIFIED


6)   Percentage of issued Class

     NOT SPECIFIED

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed
     
     


8)   Percentage of issued Class

     

9)   Class of security

     ORDINARY SHARES OF 5P


10)  Date of transaction

     NOT SPECIFIED


11)  Date company informed

     21 DECEMBER 2005


12)  Total holding following this notification

     2,800,000

               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

     10.6%


14)  Any additional information




15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

     MR N ROWE
     COMPANY SECRETARY
     01483 544505


16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification


     Date of Notification      22 DECEMBER 2005


LETTER TO:  ACAL PLC
            21 December, 2005

DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST IN ORDINARY SHARES OF 5p

We hereby give notice for the purposes of Part VI of the Companies Act 1985 that
today we have become aware that Aberforth Partners has a notifiable interest in
2,800,000 Ordinary Shares of 5p each which, based on the information available
to us, represents 10.60% of the issued share capital of the above company. This
interest arises as a result of the discretionary investment management powers
that we can exercise over the funds of our clients. Aberforth Partners is not
the beneficial owner of these shares.

The shares to which this notification relates are, or will be, registered 
as follows; -

Registered Holder                                   Number of Shares

Nortrust Nominees Limited A/C ABERFRTH                 2,331,000
Bank of Ireland Nominees Limited                         122,000
The Church Commissioners for England (Chase GIS)
Nominees Limited                                         162,000
State Street Nominees Limited A/C JD59                   185,000

                                                       2,800,000 



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