Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
18 July 2006



18 July 2006



Immediate Release


                          PayPoint plc ('the Company')


As a result of transactions on 17 July  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 Shares      Matching Shares awarded       Total number of
                      purchased on 17 July at    on 17 July at £6.06 per   Partnership, Matching and
                          £6.06 per share               share              Dividend Shares held on
                                                                                 17 July 2006

Tim Watkin-Rees                     21                   21                       1,670
George Earle                        21                   21                       1,612
Mike Igoe                           21                   21                         578



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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