Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                                
                                                                              

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of                   The Diverse Income Trust plc  
existing shares to which voting rights are attached:         

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):     
                                                                              
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                   
                                                                              
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may      
result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights     
are attached                                                                  
                                                                              
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to     
qualifying financial instruments                                              
                                                                               
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                                      X
                                                                              
Other (please        Disclosure of revised position following issue of C      
specify):            shares on 17 December 2012                                       X
                                                                              

3. Full name of person(s) subject to                                      Lloyds Banking Group plc              
the notification obligation:                                                
                                                                              
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if                                        See Section 9                         
different from 3.):                                                         
                                                                              
5. Date of the transaction and date                                       17 December 2012                      
on which the threshold is crossed or                                        
reached:                                                                    
                                                                              
6. Date on which issuer notified:                                         19 December 2012                      
                                                                              
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed                                       Indirect holdings remain above 5%     
or reached:                                                                 
                                                                              
8. Notified details:                                                          
                                                                              
A: Voting rights attached to shares                                           
                                                                              
Class/type of      Situation              Resulting situation after the triggering      
shares             previous               transaction                                   
                   to the triggering                                               
                   transaction                                                     
if possible                                                                   
using              Number     Number      Number  Number of voting    % of voting rights 
the ISIN CODE      of         of          of      rights                                
                   Shares     Voting      shares                                        
                              Rights                                                 
                                          Direct  Direct  Indirect    Direct   Indirect     
                                                                               
Ord Shares         8,558,611  8,558,611                   8,568,035            3.921%  
GBP 0.001                                                                               
ISIN GB00B65TLW28                                                              
                                                                               
C Shares GBP0.01           0          0                   3,000,000            1.373%  
ISIN GB00B84G6012                                                              
                                                                               

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                           
                                                                              
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                          
                                                                              
Type of financial  Expiration  Exercise/   Number of voting       % of voting 
instrument         date        Conversion  rights that may be     rights      
                               Period      acquired if the                    
                                           instrument is                      
                                           exercised/ converted.              
                                                                              
N/A                                                                           
                                                                              

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial 
Instruments                                                                   
                                                                              
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                          
                                                                              
Type of         Exercise Expiration Exercise/  Number of       % of voting    
financial       price    date       Conversion voting          rights         
instrument                          period     rights                         
                                               instrument                     
                                               refers to                      
                                                                              
                                                               Nominal  Delta 

Total (A+B+C)                                                                 
                                                                              
Number of voting rights             Percentage of voting rights               
                                                                              
11,568,035                          5.294%                                    
                                                                              

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                    
                                                                              
Ord Shares                                                                    
                                                                              
8,558,600 shares (3.917%) are under the control of Scottish Widows Investment 
Partnership Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Widows Investment      
Partnership Group Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Widows Group Ltd,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Bank plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Lloyds Banking Group plc.                                                     
                                                                              
C Shares                                                                      
                                                                              
3,000,000 shares (1.373%) are under the control of Scottish Widows Investment 
Partnership Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Widows Investment      
Partnership Group Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Widows Group Ltd,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Bank plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Lloyds Banking Group plc.                                                     
                                                                              

Proxy Voting:                                                                 
                                                                              
10. Name of the proxy holder:                            N/A                  
                                                                              
11. Number of voting rights proxy                        N/A                  
holder will cease to hold:                                                    
                                                                              
12. Date on which proxy holder will                      N/A                  
cease to hold voting rights:                                                  
                                                                              
13. Additional information:                     Notification using the total voting   
                                                rights figure of 218,507,978          
                                                                              
14. Contact name:                               Andrew Kellett                        
                                                                              
15. Contact telephone number:                   0113 235 7729