Director/PDMR Shareholding

16 October 2007

Immediate Release

                    PayPoint plc ("the Company")

As a result of transactions on 16 October 2007 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:-


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|                |   Partnership   |  Matching  |  Total number of  |
|                |     Shares      |   Shares   |   Partnership,    |
|                | purchased on 16 | awarded on |   Matching and    |
|                | October 2007 at | 16 October |  Dividend Shares  |
|                | £5.63 per share |  2007 at   |    held on 16     |
|                |                 |  £5.63per  |   October 2007    |
|                |                 |   share    |                   |
|----------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------|
| Tim            |       22        |     22     |       2,362       |
| Watkin-Rees    |                 |            |                   |
|----------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------|
| George Earle   |       22        |     22     |       2,266       |
|----------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------|
| Mike Igoe      |       22        |     22     |       1,208       |
|----------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------|
| Dominic Taylor |       22        |     22     |       2,318       |
|----------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------|
| Ivan Donn      |       22        |     22     |        448        |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


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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