Johnston Press PLC Regulatory News (JPR)

14 Jun 2006 15:15

Johnston Press PLC14 June 2006 Johnston Press plc ("the Company") DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST IN SHARES The Company received notification today that: a) FMR Corp, the parent holding company of Fidelity Management & ResearchCompany (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity ManagementTrust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee orinvestment manager of various pension and trust accounts. b) Fidelity International Limited (FIL), the parent holding company for variousdirect and indirect subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd(FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited(FIA(K)L), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), FidelityPension Management (FPM), Fidelity Investments Japan (FIJ) and FidelityInvestments International (FII), investment managers for various non-USinvestment companies and institutional clients, have a notifiable interest in the 10p Ordinary shares of the Company. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of Mr Edward CJohnson 3rd, a principal shareholder of FMR Corp and Fidelity InternationalLimited. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorised unittrust schemes in the UK, notwithstanding the exemption from reporting pursuantto Section 209 (1)(h) of the Companeis Act 1985. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate notificationsof interest in the shares and are combined solely for the purposes of clarityand efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that FMR Corp and itsdirect and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International Limited and its directand indirect subsidiaries or Mr Edward C Johnson 3rd act as a group or inconcert in respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are required tosubmit these notifications on a joint basis. The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b) of the Act, namelywhere a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a rightconferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of suchrights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively. The registered holders are as follows: Registered Holder Management Company Shares Held JP Morgan, Bournemouth FISL 53,181Brown Brothers Harriman & Co FMRCO 14,000,927State Street Bank and TR Co FMTC 250,000Total 14,304,108 This represents 4.98% of the total amount of shares in issue. 14 June 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange