DMGO Daily Mail Tst.

RNS Number:7811D
Bristol United Press PLC
14 January 2000


(NOT FOR RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION OR PUBLICATION IN OR INTO THE UNITED 
STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA OR JAPAN)

              Recommended cash offer by ING Barings Limited
              on behalf of Daily Mail and General Trust plc
                     for Bristol United Press plc

                 OFFER UNCONDITIONAL AS TO ACCEPTANCES

In connection with the recommended cash offer being made by ING 
Barings on behalf of DMGT for the whole of the issued and to be 
issued ordinary share capital of BUP not already owned by DMGT, DMGT 
announces that, as at 3.00 p.m. on 13 January 2000, the first closing 
date of the Offer, DMGT owned or had received valid acceptances of 
the Offer in respect of a total of 14,633,628 BUP Shares, 
representing approximately 89.5 per cent. of the existing issued 
ordinary share capital of BUP.  Accordingly, the Offer has become 
unconditional as to acceptances. The Offer, including the 
Loan Note Alternative, has been extended until further notice.  BUP 
Shareholders who wish to accept the Offer and have not yet done so 
should despatch their Forms of Acceptance as soon as possible.

As at 3.00 p.m. on 13 January 2000, valid acceptances of the Offer 
had been received in respect of 10,710,840 BUP Shares, representing 
approximately 65.5 per cent. of the existing issued ordinary share 
capital of BUP.  These acceptances include valid acceptances of the 
Offer received from all the Non-DMGT Directors of BUP in accordance 
with the irrevocable undertakings to accept the Offer given by them 
in respect of their entire holdings, which total 9,800 BUP Shares, 
representing approximately 0.06 per cent. of the existing issued 
ordinary share capital of BUP.

Prior to the commencement of the offer period, DMGT owned 3,922,788 
BUP Shares, which, when aggregated with the 964,372 BUP Shares owned 
by The Harmsworth and Mail Newspapers Pension Schemes, the 3,200 BUP 
Shares owned by the DMGT Directors of BUP and the 1,000 BUP Shares 
held by Williams de Broe as nominee (all of which are acting, or 
deemed to be acting, in concert with DMGT for the purposes of the 
City Code), represent approximately 29.9 per cent. of BUP's existing 
issued ordinary share capital.  Valid acceptances have now been 
received in respect of the 968,572 BUP Shares owned by persons 
acting, or deemed to be acting, in concert with DMGT, representing 
approximately 5.9 per cent. of BUP's existing issued ordinary share 
capital.

Save as set out above and in the Offer Document, neither DMGT, nor 
any person acting, or deemed to be acting, in concert with DMGT, has 
acquired or agreed to acquire any BUP Shares (or rights over such BUP 
Shares) during the offer period and no acceptances of the Offer have 
been received from any person acting or deemed to be acting in 
concert with DMGT.

Enquiries:

ING Barings

Nicholas Gold                                    0171 767 1000
Dominic Wallis


Definitions used in the Offer Document have the same meanings in this 
announcement, unless otherwise indicated.

The Offer, including the Loan Note Alternative, is not being made, 
directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, 
Australia and Japan, or to any resident of the United States, Canada, 
Australia or Japan or by use of the mails of, or by any means or 
instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce of, or any 
facilities of a national securities exchange of, any of the aforesaid 
jurisdictions.  This includes, but is not limited to, post, facsimile 
transmission, telex, or any other electronic forms of transmission 
and telephone.  Accordingly, copies of this announcement are not 
being and must not be mailed, forwarded or otherwise distributed or 
sent in, into or from the United States, Canada, Australia, or Japan 
including to BUP Shareholders or participants in the BUP Share Option 
Schemes with registered addresses in any of the aforesaid 
jurisdictions or to persons whom DMGT knows, or has reason to 
believe, to be custodians, trustees or nominees holding BUP Shares 
for persons with addresses in any of the aforementioned 
jurisdictions.  Persons receiving this announcement (including, 
without limitation, custodians, nominees and trustees) must not 
distribute or send it in, into or from the United States, Canada, 
Australia or Japan.

ING Barings, which is regulated by The Securities and Futures 
Authority Limited, is acting for DMGT and no-one else in connection 
with the Offer and will not be responsible to anyone other than DMGT 
for providing the protections afforded to customers of ING Barings 
nor for providing advice in relation to the Offer.


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