Notice of Results

Fairpoint Group PLC
18 February 2008



                              FAIRPOINT GROUP PLC

       Notice of Full Year Results for the Period Ended 31 December 2007

Fairpoint Group plc will be announcing its full year results for the period
ended 31 December 2007 on Tuesday 26 February 2008.

There will be an analyst presentation to discuss the results at 11.00am on 26
February 2008 at Financial Dynamics, Holborn Gate, 26 Southampton Buildings,
London WC2A 1PB.

Those analysts wishing to attend are asked to contact Nick Henderson / David
Cranmer at Financial Dynamics on [phone] / [phone] or at
[e-mail]./ [e-mail]

Enquiries:

Fairpoint Group PLC
Andrew Redmond, Chief Executive Officer     0800 083 1433
Andy Heath, Finance Director                0800 083 1433

Financial Dynamics
Ed Gascoigne-Pees                           020 7269 7132
Nick Henderson                              020 7269 7114

Notes

At Fairpoint we develop and operate consumer financial services businesses.

We select markets or opportunities which show certain characteristics:

   •Growing and sustainable consumer demand.
   •Caused by deep-rooted market, regulatory or economic factors.
   •Where innovation and effective channel execution can give sustainable
    differentiation.

As such our customers tend to be going through a period of life to which the
mass financial services market is unable to provide a solution.

We make it our business to understand our customers in depth, to help them
through their short term circumstances, and to continue that relationship, if
they so choose, into the future. The solutions offered range from basic advice,
such as simply destroying credit cards and curbing unnecessary expenditure, to
the following solutions:

   • consolidation loan
   • re-mortgage
   • informal arrangement
   • individual voluntary arrangement (IVA)
   • bankruptcy


Fairpoint always seeks (unlike many of its competitors who sell specific
products) to systematically and impartially deliver the best advice to the
consumer and recommend them the most appropriate solution.

Over the last few years we have been very much focused on the over-indebted
market in the UK. Debt Free Direct has pioneered the debt advice and solutions
industry and is a clear leader in the provision of IVAs, while Clear Start's
impartial approach has appealed to a new segment of consumers, and has helped to
take the relationships with the banks into a new era.

Our main objectives are to:

   •introduce to our existing customer base a further range of 'most wanted'
    financial products and solutions;
   •continue to increase our market share, in particular as the market goes
    through a phase of consolidation;
   •address the new growth market of cases where customers are over-extended
    on debt that is secured against their property.

In the meantime we will continue to explore opportunities in markets that fit
our investment criteria.

Fairpoint is based in Chorley, Lancashire, and was admitted to AIM in December
2002.



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