Director's Interest in Shares

Future PLC
10 July 2006




10th July 2006

                                   FUTURE PLC

                         DIRECTOR'S INTERESTS IN SHARES


Future plc (the 'Company'), the international special interest media group,
announces it received notification on 7 July 2006 from Abacus Corporate Trustee
Limited, the Trustee of its Employee Benefit Trust (The Future Network plc 1999
Employee Benefit Trust) that it had, on 7 July 2006, purchased 1,806,000
ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company (at a gross average price of 43.5p per
share), representing 0.55% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Following these transactions, the Employee Benefit Trust owns 2,551,341 shares
representing 0.78% of the issued share capital of the Company. Stevie Spring as
Chief Executive Officer and John Bowman as Group Finance Director, along with
other employees, have a technical interest in those shares by virtue of them
being members of a class of beneficiary.

On 7 July 2006, the Company also received notification from the Trustee that
John Bowman had, on 7 July 2006, acquired a beneficial interest in 300,000
shares in the Company as a result of the grant by the Employee Benefit Trust of
an exceptional restricted share award over that number of shares in the Company.
The award will vest in three equal instalments on 31 December 2006, 31 December
2007 and 31 December 2008 subject to John Bowman remaining in employment with
the Company at the date on which vesting occurs. Full details of the award will
be disclosed in the Annual Report 2006.



ENDS


Enquiries:

Future plc
Mark Millar, Company Secretary                01225 442244




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