Major Share Notification (Fidelity International Ltd)

February 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM EST

TR-1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached

Reuters Group Plc

2. Reason for the notification

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights – see Section C

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation

Fidelity International Limited (FIL)

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)

Shares Held	UK nominee	Management Co.
9,130	Trust & Cust Svcs BK Ltd, Tokyo	FIJ
8,200	State Street Hong Kong	FIA(K)L
1,275,230	State Street BK and TR CO LNDN	FPM
15,000	State Str BK and TR CO LNDN (S	FIL
1,112,500	Northern Trust London	FPM
52,100	Northern Trust London	FIL
5,800	Norddeutsche Landersbank	FIL
17,250	Nomura Trust and Banking	FIJ
373,700	Midland securities services	FPM
1,692,300	Mellon Bank	FPM
34,300	Master Trust Bank of Japan	FIJ
86,100	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FIL
1,892,000	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FPM
23,980,266	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FISL
20,112,454	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FIL
2,684,846	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FII
4,014	Dexia Privatbank	FPM
7,900	Chase Manhattan BK AG Ffurt (S	FPM
26,310,424	Brown Bros. Harrimn Ltd Lux	FIL
1,471,850	BNP Paribas, Paris	FIGEST
57,496	Bermuda Trust Far East HK	FIM HK
975,119	Bank of New York Brussels	FPM

Fidelity International Limited (FIL) is the parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaires, including Fidelity Fund Management Limited (FFML), Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIAKL), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity Pension Management (FPM), Fidelity Investments Japan (FIJ) and Fidelity Investments International (FII), Investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients.

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached

12 February 2007

6. Date on which issuer notified

14 February 2007

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
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ISIN GB0002369139	92,682,279	7.22%			82,177,979		6.40%

B. Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of Financial Instrument	Expiration Date	Exercise/Coversation Period/Date	Number of Voting Rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted	% of Voting Rights

Total (A+B)

Number of Voting Rights

% of Voting Rights

82,177,979

6.40%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable

Shares Held	UK nominee	Management Co.
9,130	Trust & Cust Svcs BK Ltd, Tokyo	FIJ
8,200	State Street Hong Kong	FIA(K)L
1,275,230	State Street BK and TR CO LNDN	FPM
15,000	State Str BK and TR CO LNDN (S	FIL
1,112,500	Northern Trust London	FPM
52,100	Northern Trust London	FIL
5,800	Norddeutsche Landersbank	FIL
17,250	Nomura Trust and Banking	FIJ
373,700	Midland securities services	FPM
1,692,300	Mellon Bank	FPM
34,300	Master Trust Bank of Japan	FIJ
86,100	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FIL
1,892,000	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FPM
23,980,266	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FISL
20,112,454	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FIL
2,684,846	JP Morgan Bournemouth	FII
4,014	Dexia Privatbank	FPM
7,900	Chase Manhattan BK AG Ffurt (S	FPM
26,310,424	Brown Bros. Harrimn Ltd Lux	FIL
1,471,850	BNP Paribas, Paris	FIGEST
57,496	Bermuda Trust Far East HK	FIM HK
975,119	Bank of New York Brussels	FPM

Fidelity International Limited (FIL) is the parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaires, including Fidelity Fund Management Limited (FFML), Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIAKL), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity Pension Management (FPM), Fidelity Investments Japan (FIJ) and Fidelity Investments International (FII), Investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:	Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease/acquire to hold:	10,504,300
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease/acquire to hold voting rights:	12 February 2007

13. Additional information:	As discussed with the FSA, prior to the implementation of the EU Transparency Directive, we aggregated the interests in shares of FMR Corp (FMR) and Fidelity International Limited (FIL) together for the purposes of shareholder reporting. According to the new DTR rules we are now reporting the indirect holdings of FMR and FIL separately. A separate notification is being submitted for FMR Corp. Please note these holdings are correct as of close of business 22 January 2007.
14. Contact Name	Teresa Garry
15. Contact telephone number:	01737 837092

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