Director/PDMR Shareholding

18 August 2009

Immediate Release

                    PayPoint plc ("the Company")

As a result of transactions on 17 August 2009 by the PayPoint plc
Share Incentive Plan (an HM Revenue & Customs 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      |   Shares    |  Partnership,   |
|                 | purchased on 17 | awarded on  |    Matching     |
|                 | August 2009 at  |     17      |  and Dividend   |
|                 |      £4.94      | August 2009 |     Shares      |
|                 |    per share    |     at      |   held on 17    |
|                 |                 |  £4.94 per  |     August      |
|                 |                 |    share    |      2009       |
|-----------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------|
| Graham Bird     |       25        |     25      |       382       |
|-----------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------|
| George Earle    |       25        |     25      |      3,471      |
|-----------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------|
| Mike Igoe       |       26        |     26      |      2,351      |
|-----------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------|
| Dominic Taylor  |       26        |     26      |      3,621      |
|-----------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------|
| Tim Watkin-Rees |       25        |     25      |      3,665      |
|-----------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------|
| Michael Norton  |       25        |     25      |      1,328      |
|-----------------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------|
| Matthew         |       26        |     26      |       582       |
| Sinclair        |                 |             |                 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


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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