Manager Announcement

Shires Income PLC
14 April 2008

SHIRES INCOME PLC



Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited ('Aberdeen') and the Board of Shires Income
Plc ('Shires Income') announce the appointment of Susan Anderson and Ed
Beal as co-managers of Shires Income.  Susan has worked for Aberdeen since the
acquisition of Glasgow Investment Managers Limited ('GIM') in 2007 and, before
that, worked as part of the trust's investment management team at GIM since
1996.  Ed is an investment manager in Aberdeen's Pan European equity team and
joined the Aberdeen group in 2000.



Contact:

William Hemmings, Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited, 020 7463 6000
Kenny Harper, Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited, 0131 528 4000

Angus Gordon Lennox, JPMorgan Cazenove Limited, 0207 588 2828




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