Director/PDMR Shareholding

25 September 2007


Immediate release

                    PayPoint plc (the "Company")

The Company has released the first tranche of its Long Term Incentive
Plan (LTIP) awards  to its  three executive directors  and six  other
senior managers as the criteria for  the release have been met.   The
awards comprise 424,052  PayPoint share options  and ordinary  shares
(of which 284,729  were originally granted  in the form  of nil  cost
Enterprise Management  Incentive (EMI)  options  and the  balance  of
139,323  as  conditional  grants  of  ordinary  shares).  The  shares
released, including options exercised, were acquired from RIT Capital
Partners and the  Weinstock estate  (both of which  are connected  to
David  Morrison,  a  director  of  the  Company).    Shares  sold  by
participants were acquired by  the PayPoint Network Limited  Employee
Incentive Trust.    All transactions  took  place at  the  mid-market
closing price on 24 September 2007 at 597.5 pence per share.

Details of  the  release of  LTIP  awards to  directors  and  persons
discharging management responsibility:

The release  to  Dominic Taylor  comprised  52,083 shares  under  EMI
options and  52,083 shares.   Dominic  Taylor's shareholding  in  the
company has increased from 1,771,502 to 1,847,452 as a consequence of
the release  of shares  and  the exercise  of options,  after  taking
account of his  sale of 28,216   shares to  meet the tax  liabilities
arising on the release and exercise of the options.

The release  to Tim  Watkin-Rees comprised  52,083 shares  under  EMI
options and  2,605  shares.  Tim  Watkin-Rees'  shareholding  in  the
company has increased from 750,000 to 796,758 as a consequence of the
release of  shares and  the  exercise of  the options,  after  taking
account of  his sale  of 7,930  shares to  meet the  tax  liabilities
arising on the release and exercise of the options

The release to George Earle comprised 52,083 shares under EMI options
and 84,635 shares.   George Earle's shareholding  in the company  has
increased from 52,083 to 104,166, as a consequence of the release and
the exercise of options, after taking  account of the sale of  84,365
shares, partly to meet the tax liabilities arising on the release  of
the shares and exercise of the options and partly for cash.

The release  to  Mark  Astbury  comprised  30,989  shares  under  EMI
options.  Mark  Astbury's shareholding in  the company has  increased
from 65,949  to  96,938 as  a  consequence  of the  exercise  of  the
options.

Dominic Taylor, Tim Watkin-Rees, George Earle and Mark Astbury remain
interested in further awards  under the LTIP  and under the  Deferred
Share Bonus Plan and Share Incentive Plan as stated in the  company's
annual report.

Enquiries
Finsbury Group             020 7251 3801
Rollo Head
Don Hunter

About PayPoint

PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the  UK
and Ireland, handling  in excess of  £5 billion in  over 400  million
transactions annually for more than  5,000 clients and merchants. The
company operates with several significant payment streams:

*          The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 18,500
  terminals located in local shops (including Co-ops, Spar,
  Costcutter, Sainsburys Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of
  independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle
  gas and electricity meter prepayments, cash bill payments, mobile
  phone top-ups, transport tickets, London Congestion Charges, BBC TV
  licences and a wide variety of other payment types for all of the
  leading utilities, telecommunications suppliers and many consumer
  service companies. This network is used by consumers, free of
  charge, over 7 million times a week. The network has 97.3%
  population cover on a 1 mile urban or 5 miles rural measure;

*          Additional multiple retailer connections into the
  electronic till systems of nearly 4,000 outlets including BP,
  Somerfield and Superdrug for mobile top ups and selected payments
  from the PayPoint range;

*          The PayPoint ATM network has 1,979 'LINK'-branded machines
  across the UK, also typically in convenience stores;

*          PayPoint Internet Payment Services (PPIPS), trading as
  Metacharge and SECPay, provides secure credit and debit card
  payments for over 4,000 web merchants linking into all the major UK
  acquiring banks.

*          PayPoint International has recently acquired a Romanian
  mobile top-up operator to which a bill payment service will be
  added, emulating the UK branded retail network. PayPoint
  International also operates Irish bill payment and top-up services.

PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004.  The
company's  market capitalisation at  25 March 2007 was £464  million.
PayPoint has been  awarded the  Queen's Award for  Enterprise and  is
widely reconginised for its  leadership in prepayment systems,  smart
technology and consumer service.

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