Director's Share Purchase

    RNS Number : 3804K
  Melrose Resources PLC
  18 December 2008
   

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                         18 December 2008

    MELROSE RESOURCES PLC

    DIRECTOR'S SHARE PURCHASE

    Melrose Resources plc (LSE: MRS) ("the Company") announces that, on 17th 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 15 December 2008  16 December 2008 (1)  16 December 2008
                      No.          %              No.              No.        %
 R F M Adair (2)    58,069,429     52.75      5,000             58,074,429  52.75

    Notes: 

(1)                 The shares were acquired at £1.915 per ordinary share by Skye Investments Limited.
(2)                 The interests of R F M Adair as at 16th December 2008 include 57,273,923 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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