Issue of Equity

Thorpe(F.W.) PLC 24 October 2007 F W THORPE PLC ISSUE OF EQUITY The Company announces that on 23 October 2007 it issued 8,483 new ordinary shares pursuant to the exercise of options under the F W Thorpe plc 1998 Executive Share Option Scheme. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange plc for these shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission is expected to be on 30 October 2007. Total Voting Rights Following the issue of the above 8,483 new ordinary shares there will be a total number of shares in issue of 11,913,559 ordinary shares. The Company has no Treasury or other non voting shares and therefore the total number of voting shares is 11,913,559. This number can be used as the denominator when determining any disclosable interest in the voting share capital of the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Directors Interest David Lippold has exercised options over 4,359 ordinary shares, (included above), representing 0.04 percent of the issued voting capital of the Company at an exercise price of 117p per share. Following this exercise David will have an interest in 18,500 ordinary shares representing 0.16 percent of the issued voting capital of the Company. As previously announced, David ceases to be a director on 31 October 2007 and therefore on that date will cease to have a disclosable interest in the share capital of the Company. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange