Director/PDMR Shareholding

17 October 2006

Immediate Release

                    PayPoint plc ("the Company")

As a result of transactions on 16 October 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:-


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|              | Partnership  | Matching | Dividend  | Total number |
|              |    Shares    |  Shares  |  Shares   |      of      |
|              | purchased on | awarded  | purchased | Partnership, |
|              |  16 October  |  on 16   |   on 16   | Matching and |
|              |   2006 at    | October  |  October  |   Dividend   |
|              |  £6.54 per   | 2006 at  |  2006 at  | Shares held  |
|              |    share     |  £6.54   | £6.54 per |    on 16     |
|              |              |   per    |  shares   | October 2006 |
|              |              |  share   |           |              |
|--------------+--------------+----------+-----------+--------------|
| Tim          |      19      |    19    |     0     |    1,797     |
| Watkin-Rees  |              |          |           |              |
|--------------+--------------+----------+-----------+--------------|
| George Earle |      19      |    19    |     0     |    1,738     |
|--------------+--------------+----------+-----------+--------------|
| Mike Igoe    |      19      |    19    |     0     |     703      |
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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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