DAILY MAIL & GENERAL TRUST PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

18 December 2013

                   Daily Mail and General Trust plc (`DMGT')

                           Transaction in own shares

DMGT (`the Company') announces that on 18 December 2013 it transferred
2,474,540 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (`A Shares') out of treasury at a price
of £9.1403 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.

Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has
acquired from JPMorgan Cazenove Limited 2,474,540 A Shares at a price of £
9.1403. The shares purchased will be held in treasury.

Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is
20,307,648 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held as
treasury shares) is 353,501,385.

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Fran Sallas, DMGT Assistant Company Secretary: 

                                               Daily Mail and General Trust plc

                                             Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street,

                                                                 London, W8 5TT

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