On 28 September 2006, Christopher Hagman, a person discharging managerial responsibilities at Reuters, exercised three Discretionary Share Option Plans granted to him in August 2002, February 2003 and August 2003 over 150,000, 50,000 and 75,000 Ordinary 25p shares respectively. In total 151,994 shares were sold to cover the cost of the options and associated dealing charges and commission. 123,006 shares were retained.

Mr Hagman now has a beneficial interest in 170,996 Ordinary shares, options over 75,440 Ordinary shares and rights under Reuters long term incentive plans in respect of 361,533 Ordinary shares.

These holdings do not exceed 1% of the issued share capital of the company.

Contact:
Elizabeth Maclean
Assistant Company Secretary
Reuters Group PLC
Elizabeth.maclean@reuters.com
Tel no. 020 7542 6707