Cancellation of Ordinary Shares and listing of A Shares

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO ORFROM ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THERELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION 30 October 2013 Daily Mail and General Trust plc ("DMGT") Cancellation of listing of DMGT Ordinary Shares and listing of new DMGT A Shares DMGT announces that at 8:00 a.m. today the UK Listing Authority cancelled thelisting of DMGT Ordinary Shares on the Official List and the London StockExchange cancelled the trading of DMGT Ordinary Shares on the London StockExchange's main market for listed securities. DMGT further announces that at 8:00 a.m. today 268,538 new DMGT A Sharescreated pursuant to the Scheme were listed on the Official List and wereadmitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market. Defined terms used in this announcement, unless defined herein, have the samemeanings as in the scheme circular published by DMGT on 7 September 2013. A copy of this announcement will be available on DMGT's website at:http://www.dmgt.com. Enquiries: DMGT +44 20 7938 6000Stephen DaintithClaire Chapman Lazard (Financial Adviser to the Independent DMGT Directors) +44 20 7187 2000Nicholas ShottCyrus Kapadia Brunswick Group LLP (Public Relations Adviser to DMGT) +44 20 7404 5959Kim FletcherCharlie Potter Rothschild (Financial Adviser to RCL) +44 20 7280 5656Dominic Hollamby Rothschild, which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority andregulated in the UK by the FCA and the Prudential Regulation Authority, isacting exclusively for RCL and no one else in connection with the Proposal andwill not be responsible to anyone other than RCL for providing the protectionsafforded to clients of Rothschild or for providing advice in relation to theProposal or any other matters referred to in this announcement. NeitherRothschild nor any of its associates owes or accepts any duty, liability orresponsibility whatsoever (whether direct or indirect, whether in contract, intort, under statute or otherwise) to any person who is not a client ofRothschild in connection with any statement contained herein or otherwise. Lazard & Co., Limited (Lazard), which is authorised and regulated in the UK bythe FCA, is acting exclusively as financial adviser to the Independent DMGTDirectors and no one else in connection with the Proposal and will not beresponsible to anyone other than the Independent DMGT Directors for providingthe protections afforded to clients of Lazard or for providing advice inrelation to the Proposal or any other matters referred to in this announcement.Neither Lazard nor any of its affiliates owes or accepts any duty, liability orresponsibility whatsoever (whether direct or indirect, whether in contract, intort, under statute or otherwise) to any person who is not a client of Lazardin connection with any statement contained herein or otherwise. Daily Mail and General Trust plc Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT www.dmgt.com