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Speedy Hire PLC 20 April 2005 NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. Company in which shares are held: SPEEDY HIRE 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), 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 SECURITY: SPEEDY HIRE PLC SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT NOMINEE/REGISTERED COMPANY NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37,300 FIJ BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN AND CO TOTAL 805,747 FIL BROWN BROS HARRIMAN LTD LUX TOTAL 400 FIL NORTHERN TRUST LONDON TOTAL 45,300 FIL STATE STR BK AND TR CO LNDN (S TOTAL 202,560 FISL JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH TOTAL 24,700 FPM BANK OF NEW YORK BRUSSELS TOTAL 76,900 FPM CITIBANK LONDON TOTAL 90,000 FPM JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH TOTAL 400 FPM NORTHERN TRUST LONDON TOTAL 1,263,307 GRAND TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE: 3.02% SHARES IN ISSUE: 42,538,835 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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