Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
20 September 2005

20 September 2005


Immediate Release


                          PayPoint plc ('the Company')



As a result of transactions on 19 September 2005 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       Total number of  
                        Shares purchased   Shares awarded      Partnership,   
                        on 19 September         on 19          Matching and   
                          at £2.93 per      September at     Dividend Shares  
                             share            £2.93 per         held on 19    
                                               share         September 2005  
 
  Dominic Taylor              43                 43               1132        
  Tim Watkin-Rees             43                 43               1132        
  George Earle                43                 43               1101        
  Susan Court                 43                 43               1126        
  David Steed                 43                 43               1120        
  Jonathan Moon               38                 38               1000        
  Lorraine Buhagiar           34                 34                911        
  Barry Skillett              43                 43               1120        
  Mark Astbury                43                 43               1126        
  John Lee                    42                 42                84         
  Mike Igoe                   42                 42                84   

 
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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