Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
16 August 2006


16 August 2006

                          PayPoint plc ('the Company')


As a result of transactions on 16 August 2006 by the PayPoint plc Share
Incentive Plan (an Inland Revenue approved all employee share purchase plan),
the executive directors and persons discharging management responsibility of the
Company have the following interests as a result of their personal participation
in the Plan:-

+--------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+
|              |  Partnership  |   Matching   |  Dividend   |Total number of|
|              |    Shares     |Shares awarded|   Shares    | Partnership,  |
|              |purchased on 16| on 16 August |purchased on | Matching and  |
|              |August 2006 at |2006 at £5.20 |  16 August  |Dividend Shares|
|              |£5.20 per share|  per share   |2006 at £5.20|  held on 16   |
|              |               |              | per shares  |  August 2006  |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+
|Tim           |      24       |      24      |      1      |     1,719     |
|Watkin-Rees   |               |              |             |               |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+
|George Earle  |      24       |      24      |      0      |     1,660     |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+
|Mike Igoe     |      24       |      24      |      1      |      627      |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+
|Dominic Taylor|       0       |      0       |      1      |     1,955     |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+
|John Lee      |       0       |      0       |      1      |      861      |
+--------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+


In accordance with the rules of the Plan the persons named above have been
awarded the Matching Shares on the basis of one Matching Share for each
Partnership Share.


The beneficial ownership of the Matching Shares will pass to the persons listed
above in three years time subject to continued employment and the retention of
the underlying Partnership Shares.

                                     



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