Notifications of Major Interests in Shares 01/03/2010 | Dignity Plc

01/03/2010

Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	Dignity Plc
2. Reason for notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights	X
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached.
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments	X
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	BlackRock, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	25^th February 2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:	1^st March 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Holding has gone below 5%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
GB00B14W3659	3,171,132	3,171,132	N/A	N/A	2,910,388	N/A	4.57%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion Period	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date ^xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period ^xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights ^{xix, xx}
CFD				204,933	Nominal	Delta
					0.32%	0.32%

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
3,115,321	4.89%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited - 3,115,321 (4.89%)

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:	BlackRock Compliance Disclosures Team
14. Contact name:	Stuart Watchorn
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7743 5741; stuart.watchorn@blackrock.com

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