Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number:8479R
Royal London UK Eqty&Income Tst PLC
07 November 2003



ROYAL LONDON UK EQUITY & INCOME TRUST PLC ("the Company")

DISCLOSURE OF INTERESTS IN SHARES



The Company has today been notified by Aberdeen Asset Management PLC ("AAM") on
behalf of its fund management operating subsidiaries* that, as a result of its
acquisition of Edinburgh Fund

Managers Group Plc on 24 October 2003, these subsidiaries now control as
managers an additional 2,000,000 ordinary 1p shares in the Company.


The total number of ordinary shares in the Company now under the management of
AAM's operating subsidiaries is 12,732,174 ordinary shares, representing 18.19%
of the issued share capital of that class.


* AAM's UK fund management subsidiaries are:

Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited

Edinburgh Fund Managers Limited

Murray Johnstone Limited



Relevant clients of AAM's UK fund management subsidiaries, on behalf of which
these shares are held are:
Fund name                                   Current holding          Percentage
Aberdeen High Income Trust PLC                2,006,768                 2.87
Aberdeen Preferred Income Trust PLC           6,032,406                 8.61
St Davids Investment Trust Plc                2,693,000                 3.85
Edinburgh Leveraged Income Plc                2,000,000                 2.86
Total                                        12,732,174                18.19



7 NOVEMBER 2003


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