Issue of Equity

Thorpe(F.W.) PLC
24 October 2007


F W THORPE PLC


ISSUE OF EQUITY

The Company announces that on 23 October 2007 it issued 8,483 new ordinary
shares pursuant to the exercise of options under the F W Thorpe plc 1998
Executive Share Option Scheme. Application has been made to the London Stock
Exchange plc for these shares to be admitted to trading on AIM.  Admission is
expected to be on 30 October 2007.


Total Voting Rights

Following the issue of the above 8,483 new ordinary shares there will be a total
number of shares in issue of 11,913,559 ordinary shares. The Company has no
Treasury or other non voting shares and therefore the total number of voting
shares is 11,913,559. This number can be used as the denominator when
determining any disclosable interest in the voting share capital of the Company
under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.


Directors Interest

David Lippold has exercised options over 4,359 ordinary shares, (included
above), representing 0.04 percent of the issued voting capital of the Company at
an exercise price of 117p per share. Following this exercise David will have an
interest in 18,500 ordinary shares representing 0.16 percent of the issued
voting capital of the Company. As previously announced, David ceases to be a
director on 31 October 2007 and therefore on that date will cease to have a
disclosable interest in the share capital of the Company.



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