RNS Number:8847M
Tops Estates PLC
27 June 2003


SECTION 198. COMPANIES ACT 1985

LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC HAVE GIVEN NOTICE TODAY THAT THEIR BENEFICIAL HOLDING
OF SHARES IN THE COMPANY HAS REDUCED BY 700,000 TO 1,525,697 ORDINARY SHARES OF
25P EACH. REPRESENTING 3.36% OF THE ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL.

DIRECTOR AND COMPANY SECRETARY'S SHAREHOLDINGS

TOPS ESTATES PLC (THE "COMPANY") WAS NOTIFIED ON 26TH JUNE, 2003 THAT DARREN
JOHN SHARPE, A DIRECTOR OF THE COMPANY, AND ANIL KUMAR THAPAR, THE COMPANY
SECRETARY, HAVE, ON 26TH JUNE, 2003, EACH PURCHASED 1,000 ORDINARY SHARES OF 25
PENCE EACH. THE PRICE PAID BY BOTH WAS 211.OP PER SHARE.  FOLLOWING THESE
PURCHASES, DARREN SHARPE AND ANIL THAPAR HAVE HOLDINGS RESPECTIVELY OF 1,006 AND
1,000 ORDINARY SHARES, REPRESENTING 0.00002% AND 0.00002% OF THE COMPANY'S
ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL.
 
ANIL K. THAPAR 
COMPANY SECRETARY                                             27TH JUNE, 2003

 

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