On 5 June 2006, Geert Linnebank, a person discharging managerial responsibilities at Reuters exercised a Save As You Earn Plan granted in 2003 over 4,200 shares. All 4,200 Ordinary 25p shares were retained. Mr Linnebank now holds 17,209 Ordinary shares, 536,764 Options (Ordinary shares) and 272,322 long term incentive plans (Ordinary shares).These holdings do not exceed 1% of the issued share capital of the company.

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