Director/PDMR Shareholding

PayPoint PLC
22 August 2005

22 August 2005


Immediate Release

                          PayPoint plc ('the Company')


As a result of transactions on 19 August 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 Shares purchased     Matching Shares awarded on     Total number of Partnership,  
                          on 19 August at £2.57 per        19 August at £2.57 per       Matching and Dividend Shares  
                                   share                           share                  held on 19 August 2005      

  Dominic Taylor                     48                             48                             1046               

  Tim Watkin-Rees                    48                             48                             1046               

  George Earle                       48                             48                             1015               

  Susan Court                        48                             48                             1040               

  David Steed                        48                             48                             1034               

  Jonathan Moon                      43                             43                              924               

  Lorraine Buhagiar                  39                             39                              843               

  Barry Skillett                     48                             48                             1034               

  Mark Astbury                       48                             48                             1040               


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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