Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Anglo-Welsh Group PLC
6 April 2000

Anglo-Welsh Group announces that it was informed on 5 April 2000 on the
following gifts of its shares all made on 5 April 2000 by a Director of the
Company and his wife for nil consideration.

Mr D Daynes, Managing Director, gifted 7,000 ordinary shares in the Company to
Opalcrown Limited. Mrs L Daynes also gifted 18,000 ordinary shares in the
Company to Opalcrown Limited. Opalcrown Limited is a company controlled by Mr
Daynes and, accordingly, Mr Daynes remains beneficially interested in these
shares.

Additionally, the Company has been informed that Mr D Daynes gifted 11,000
ordinary shares in the company to his adult son, Mr M D Daynes. Mr D Daynes is
no longer beneficially interested in these shares.