Transaction in Own Shares

2 December 2013 Daily Mail and General Trust plc (`DMGT') Transaction in own shares DMGT (`the Company') announces that on 2 December 2013 it transferred 105,306 AOrdinary Non-Voting Shares out of treasury to match obligations to provideshares under its Executive Nil-Cost Option Scheme. The share price was £9.005,being that at the close of business on Wednesday 27 November 2013. Following this transfer the total number of A Ordinary Non-Voting shares heldin treasury is 20,307,648 and the total number of A Ordinary Non-Voting sharesin issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 353,440,385. 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 Registered in England and Wales No. 184594