Announcement under Listing Rule (LR) 9.6.14

June 5, 2006 at 12:00 AM EDT

Penelope Hughes is a serving non-executive director of Reuters Group PLC and as such Reuters Group PLC is obliged to update, via the Regulatory News Service, any change to Ms Hughes' directorships of other publicly quoted companies.

On 23 May 2006, Vodafone PLC announced that Penelope Hughes, a non-executive director, would not be seeking re-election as a director at the Vodafone PLC annual general meeting on 25 July 2006.