Holding in Company

RM PLC
31 October 2000


The Company received the following notification from FMR Corp on 31 October
2000:

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held: RM plc

2. Notifiable Interest: Ordinary Shares

           Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
           P.O. BOX HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), and Fidelity      
          Pension Management Ltd. (FPM), investment managers for various non-   
         US investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A     
        for listing of Registered Shareholdes and their holdings.)
           
                    

3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of

           Mr Edward C Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Principal shareholder of Fidelity International Limited.

4.     The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
       unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from 
       reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1) (e) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.     These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
       notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for 
       the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate 
       Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
       or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of 
       the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these 
       notifications on a joint basis.

6.     The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act,
       namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
       to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to 
       control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act
       respectively.


SCHEDULE A

SECURITY: RM plc.                                  
 

                      SHARES HELD   MANAGEMENT   NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                                     COMPANY     NAME
(Ordinary Shares)

                        1,085,988       FPM      Clydedale Bank (Head Office)
                                                  Nominees Ltd
                           21,000       FPM      Gracechurch Nominees
                          178,850       FPM      RBS Trust Bank
                          898,000       FPM      Bankers Trust
                           85,870       FPM      Citibank
                          337,210       FPM      Nortrust Nominees Ltd 
                           81,450       FPM      BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                        1,209,365       FPM      Chase Nominees Ltd
                          103,020       FPM      MSS Nominees Ltd
                          123,900       FPM      State Street Nominees Ltd
                          124,700       FPM      HSBC Client Holding Nominees
                                                  (UK) Limited
                           23,930       FIL      Citibank
                           83,930       FIL      Mellon Bank
                          243,557       FIL      Bankers Trust
                        1,976,474       FIL      RBS Trust Bank
                           19,970       FIL      KAS Associate
                           25,930       FIL      RBS Edinburg
                           33,700       FIL      MSS Nominees Ltd
                          569,220       FIL      Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                          142,300       FIL      BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                          143,000       FIL      Morgan Stanley
                          353,490       FIL      Northern Trust
                          157,510       FIL      State Street Nominees Ltd
                          370,727       FIL      Bank of New York Europe
                          651,800       FIL      Chase Nominees Ltd

TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES:  9,044,891

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:  9.66%