Holding(s) in Company

Speedy Hire PLC
20 March 2006



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.....                           Amendment No 10 Revised

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:      6.92%

TOTAL SHARES HELD:               3,133,277

SHARES IN ISSUE:                45,277,610

CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE
 LAST FILING:                  (686,427) ORDINARY SHARES



                      SHARES HELD   MANAGEMENT   NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                                     COMPANY     NAME

                      250,752          FPM       JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH
                       76,900          FPM       CITIBANK LONDON
                       24,700          FPM       BANK OF NEW YORK BRUSSELS
                        9,200          FPM       NORTHERN TRUST LONDON
                       34,001          FISL      JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH
                    2,663,671          FIL       BROWN BROS HARRIMN LTD LUX
                       37,800          FIL       STATE STR BK AND TR CO LNDN (S
                       10,053          FIL       NORTHERN TRUST LONDON
                       26,200          FIJ       BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN AND CO








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