Christmas and New Year Service Arrangements 2007/2008

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS 2007/2008

This announcement sets out the business days and trading hours for the London Stock Exchange over the Christmas and New Year period 2007/2008.

All times are GMT unless otherwise stated

Monday24 December 2007 and Monday 31 December 2007

Market hours

Market hours for the Exchange’s trading services and markets will, unless stated otherwise, commence at their normal scheduled times and will close from 12:30 GMT (13:30 CET) on both days. Market Making obligations will remain firm until the later of this time or where relevant until the end of the closing auction.

Home Market Closed

For those services where the home market of the underlying instrument is closed there is no obligation to enter orders or display quotes at this time.

Trade reporting

The trade reporting period will commence at the normal time until the trade reporting system closes for all services at 13:15 GMT (14:15 CET). Transactions executed outside these times should be submitted immediately at the start of the next trade reporting period.

Regulatory News Service (“RNS”)

RNS will release announcements between the hours of 07:00 and 13:30. RNS will continue to accept announcement submissions 24 hours per day. Any announcement submitted outside of RNS release hours will be released on the next available business day.

Infolect

The Infolect service will be available from 05:00 to 20:30 hours.

Johannesburg Securities Exchange (“JSE”)

JSE Christmas arrangements will be communicated by the JSE to their customers and can be found on the JSE website:

Indices

Indices derived solely from UK trading data will cease following closure of the UK markets.

For further information regarding the dissemination of all other indices, please contact FTSE on 020 7866 1810.

Message retrieval service

The message retrieval service will run from 05:00 to 20:30 hours. Idle polls will be broadcast as normal on all services until the close of operational hours.

Own order book download

The own order book download service will be available from 05:00 to 20:30 hours.

UK Official List

The UK Official Listservice will be broadcast by 14:00 hours.

SEDOL Masterfile (“SMF”)

The SMF telephone enquiries service, 09065 543210, will be available until 13:30 hours.

Market Supervision (“MSU”)

If you have any queries regarding the trading service hours please contact the Market Supervision Helpdesk on 020 7797 3666 (Option 1) or (STX 33666). If you have any other queries please contact your account manager or the Technical Information Desk on 020 7797 3939 (STX 33939).

Service Arrangements for Monday 24 December and Monday 31 December 2007

The trading schedule for SET1, SET2, SET3, AMSM, STMM, SSMM, SSMU, SFM1, ETFS, ETCS, ETF2, ETC2, ETCU & ETFU on the two days will be as follows:

* Dependent on the sector.

The trading schedule for AIM, AIMI, STBS and CNVE will be as follows:

The trading schedule for SETSqx segments SSQ4, SSX4, ASQN and ASXN will be as follows:

The trading schedule for SETSqx segments SSQ3, SSX3, ASQ1, ASQ2, ASX1, ASX2, SFM2, SFM3 and SFM4 will be as follows:

The trading schedule for IOB & IOBU will be as follows:

The trading schedule for IOB & IOBUauction only trading will be as follows:

The trading schedule for ITBB & ITBU will be as follows:

* Dependent on the sector.

The trading schedule for ITBB & ITBU auction only trading will be as follows:

The trading schedule for Eurosets will be as follows:

The trading schedule for the sectors below in INSD/LVSD:

Will be as follows:

The trading schedule for the sectors below in INSD/LVSD:

Will be as follows:

The trading schedule for EQS will be as follows:

The trading schedule for ITR will be as follows:

Service Announcement (Live) 108/07

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