Transaction in Own Shares

20 March 2014 Daily Mail and General Trust plc (`DMGT') Transaction in own shares DMGT (`the Company') announces that on 20 March 2014 it transferred 671,592 AOrdinary Non-Voting Shares (`A Shares') out of treasury at a price of £9.532per share to match obligations to provide shares to minority shareholders ofits Risk Management Solutions subsidiary who had acquired them as a result ofexercising their stock options under its scheme. The share price was that atthe close of business on Thursday 20 March 2014. Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT hasacquired from JPMorgan Cazenove Limited 671,592 A Shares at a price of £9.532.The shares purchased will be held in treasury. Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is20,297,194 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held astreasury shares) is 353,582,363. Name of contact and telephone number for queries: Fran Sallas, DMGT Assistant Company Secretary: 020 3615 2904 Daily Mail and General Trust plc Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT www.dmgt.com

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