RNS Number:2825P
Thorntons PLC
02 September 2003


                         Thorntons plc ("the Company")

                        DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST IN SHARES


The Company has received notification today that, following a purchase of
250,000 shares on 1 September 2003, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust holds
4,000,000 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company, representing 6.01% of the
total shares in issue.




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