RNS Number:7308U
Reuters Group PLC
28 January 2004



Amendment No.1

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 - - U.K. COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held:        Reuters Grp. Plc

2. Notifiable Interest:                     Ordinary Shares

   FMR Corp.
   82 Devonshire Street
   Boston, MA 02109

   Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), 
   investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company
   (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment 
   manager of various pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of 
   Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

   Fidelity International Limited (FIL) 
   P.O. Box HM 670 
   Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

   Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
   including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd., (FISL) and Fidelity Pension 
   Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US investment companies 
   and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered 
   Shareholders and their holdings.)

3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:

   Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d 
   82 Devonshire Street,
   Boston, MA 02109

   A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.

4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized unit 
   trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting 
   pursuant to Section 209 (l)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

 
5. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate 
   notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the 
   purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to 
   indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity 
   International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or 
   Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the 
   disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications 
   on a joint basis.


6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b) of the Act, namely 
   where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a 
   right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of 
   such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.
 


Schedule A

Security: Reuters Grp. Plc
 
                                  MANAGEMENT 
                  SHARES HELD       COMPANY     NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME
(Ordinary Shares)          
                   
                   4,044,700          FMRCO     Chase Nominees Lid
                      19,500          FMRCO         HSBC 
                     245,100          FMRCO     State Street Nominees Limited
                      66,100          FMRCO     State Street Bank & Trust Company
                     407,400          FMTC      BT Globenet Nominees Limited
                     123,000          FMTC       Bank of New York
                     241,700          FMTC      Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
                     103,100          FMTC      State Street Nominees Ltd
                     148,400          FMTC      State Street Bank & Trust
                      24,000          FMTC       Chase Nominees Ltd
                   3,673,963          FISL      Chase Manhattan Bank London
                     701,600          FISL      Chase Nominees Ltd
                      21,600          FPM       Citibank
                     498,000          FPM       HSBC Client Holdings Nominee 
                                                 (UK) Limited
                   1,156,330          FPM        Bankers Trust
                   2,928,834          FPM        Chase Nominees Ltd
                     761,500          FPM        Northern Trust
                  29,149,462          FIL       HSBC Client Holdings Nominee
                                                  (UK) Limited
                   1,269,233          FIL       Chase Manhattan Bank London
                     458,000          FIL       Bank of New York Brussels
                   2,004,960          FIL         Northern Trust
                   3,937,883          FIL       Chase Nominees Ltd
                   1,590,731          FIL       Bank of New York London
                   1,182,700          FIL       Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                     771,980          FIL       State Street Bank & Trust
                      75,900          FIL       Deutsche Bank
                     146,100          FIL       JP Morgan
                      60,300          FIL       Mellon Nominees Ltd
                       8,700          FIL       National Australia Bank
                       4,500          FIL            PICG
                      73,100          FIL       Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt
                     158,900          FIL       Northern Trust London
                       5,600          FIL       State Street Hong Kong
                     343,600          FIL       Brown Brothers Harriman
                     260,300          FIL       Bank of New York London
                      76,018          FIL       Deutsche Bank AG, London
                      38,000          FIL       Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                      18,200          FIL           Citibank

The following shares are based on the assumed conversion of 210,300 ADRs
(6 ordinary shares per ADR)

                    385,800           FMRCO    Chase Nominees Limited
                    301,800           FMTC     BT Globenet Nominees Limited
                     55,200           FMTC     State Street Bank & Trust
                     84,000           FMTC     Deutsche Bank AG
                     35,400           FMTC     Northern Trust
                     83,400           FISL     Chase Manhattan Bank London
                    316,200           FIL      Brown Brothers Harriman Ltd. LUX  

 
Total Ordinary Shares:              58,060,794
Current ownership percentage:            4.05%
Shares in issue:                 1,432,551,334
Changes in holding since 
last filing                         +11,535,238 ordinary shares







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