Director's Share Purchase

    RNS Number : 9886J
  Melrose Resources PLC
  11 December 2008
   

 Immediate Release   11 December 2008




    MELROSE RESOURCES PLC

    DIRECTOR'S SHARE PURCHASE

    Melrose Resources plc (LSE: MRS) ("the Company") announces that, on 10th December 2008, it received notification of the following
changes in a Director's shareholding as a result of the purchase of shares in the Company, further details of which are set out below.


 Ordinary shares        Holding               Purchased           Holding 
                  as at 8 December 2008  9 December 2008 (1)   9 December 2008
                      No.          %             No.             No.        %
 R F M Adair (2)    58,059,429    52.74      10,000           58,069,429  52.75

    Notes: 
         (1)   The shares were acquired at £1.935 per ordinary share by Skye Investments Limited.
         (2)   The interests of R F M Adair as at 10th December 2008 include 57,268,923 ordinary shares held by Skye Investments 
             Limited, a company in which he has a controlling interest.
         (3)   The Company has 110,086,888 ordinary shares in issue.


    For further information please contact:

 Melrose Resources plc
 Alasdair Robinson, Group Company Secretary             0131 221 3360

 Buchanan Communications 
 Ben Willey                                             0207 466 5000
 Ben Romney
 or visit www.melroseresources.com





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