Barclays - mucky business in the hayshed

31 July 2008 Bradford & Bingley plc

Notification of Major Interests in Shares

We were notified on 30 July that Barclays PLC reduced their interest in the total voting rights of Bradford & Bingley Plc from 5% to below the reportable threshhold following transactions undertaken on 29 July 2008.

ENDS

Further to our report on Barclays Wealth withdrawing their branding from the Sky televised British Show Jumping Association 2 day British Masters Invitational, at Chester's Roodee racecourse this week due to them not having been informed of photographs of a couple of promising fillies used for publicity purposes. A spokeswoman for Barclays Wealth, the private-banking arm of the U.K. bank Barclays, called the photos "inappropriate."

Here is another of the "inappropriate" pics, about which those who like horsing about can form their own conclusions - what precisely is going on (and indeed has been going on) with the shareholdings in Bradford & Bungle they can also judge for themselves.