DAILY MAIL & GENERAL TRUST PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

20 March 2014

                   Daily Mail and General Trust plc (`DMGT')

                           Transaction in own shares

DMGT (`the Company') announces that on 20 March 2014 it transferred 671,592 A
Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (`A Shares') out of treasury at a price of £9.532
per share to match obligations to provide shares to minority shareholders of
its Risk Management Solutions subsidiary who had acquired them as a result of
exercising their stock options under its scheme. The share price was that at
the close of business on Thursday 20 March 2014.

Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has
acquired from JPMorgan Cazenove Limited 671,592 A Shares at a price of £9.532.
The shares purchased will be held in treasury.

Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is
20,297,194 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held as
treasury shares) is 353,582,363.

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Fran Sallas, DMGT Assistant Company Secretary: 

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