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Speedy Hire PLC 28 September 2005 Amendment 7 NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 - - U.K. COMPANIES ACT 1. Company in which shares are held: Speedy Hire Plc 2. Notifiable interest: Ordinary Shares (A) FMR Corp. 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings). (B) 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), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIA(K)L), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity Pension Management (FPM) and Fidelity Investments International (FII), investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients. 3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of: Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 A 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)(h) 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 and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that 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 Amendment 7 Security: SPEEDY HIRE PLC Current ownership percentage: 8.94% Total Shares held: 3,858,752 Shares in issue: 43,144,878 Change in holdings since last filing: +21,992 ordinary shares MANAGEMENT SHARES HELD COMPANY NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME 282,552 FPM JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH 76,900 FPM CITIBANK LONDON 24,700 FPM BANK OF NEW YORK BRUSSELS 10,300 FPM NORTHERN TRUST LONDON 140,000 FMRCO CITIBANK NA 188,860 FISL JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH 3,048,840 FIL BROWN BROS HARRIMAN LTD LUX 37,900 FIL STATE STR BK AND TR CO LNDN(S 11,400 FIL NORTHERN TRUST LONDON 37,300 FIJ BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN AND CO This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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