Director Shareholding

Future PLC
3 March 2005


                                   FUTURE PLC
 
               NOTIFICATION OF DIRECTOR'S INTERESTS IN SHARES

Future plc (LSE : FUTR) announces that, on 3 March 2005, the Company received
notification that Patrick Taylor (non-executive Director) had, on 3 March 2005,
exercised 50,000 options granted to him on 19 November 2001 at an exercise price
of 47 pence per share.

Consequently Patrick Taylor has acquired 50,000 shares in the Company, and as
disclosed in the Company's Annual Report 2004, Patrick Taylor has undertaken to
the Company to hold these shares for a minimum period of one year from the date
he eventually leaves the Board. He has no outstanding share options in the
Company.

Patrick Taylor's total interest in shares in the Company now amounts to 150,000
shares, representing approximately 0.05% of the Company's issued share capital.

For further information, please contact:

Mark Millar, Company Secretary                    01225 442244
Future plc
or Nina Sparrow, Legal Projects Co-Ordinator      01225 442244
Future plc




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