TIDMFDI TIDMLGEN 
 
RNS Number : 8171X 
Firestone Diamonds PLC 
13 December 2010 
 

 
 
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                              | 
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the   | Firestone Diamonds Plc       | 
| underlying issuer of existing      |                              | 
| shares to which voting rights are  |                              | 
| attached:                          |                              | 
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or     | 
| boxes):                                                               | 
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|                                                               | Yes   | 
| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                   |       | 
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|                                                               |       | 
| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial            |       | 
| instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares     |       | 
| already issued to which voting rights are attached            |       | 
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|                                                               |       | 
| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar        |       | 
| economic effect to qualifying financial instruments           |       | 
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|                                                               | Yes   | 
| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights              |       | 
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|                |                                              |       | 
| Other (please  |                                              |       | 
| specify):      |                                              |       | 
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|                |                                              |       | 
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject  | Legal & General Group Plc    | 
| to the notification obligation:    | (Group)                      | 
|                                    |                              | 
|                                    | Legal & General (Unit Trust  | 
|                                    | Managers) Limited (UTM)      | 
|                                    |                              | 
|                                    | Legal & General Investment   | 
|                                    | Management Limited (LGIM)    | 
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if |                              | 
| different from 3.):                | N/A                          | 
|                                    |                              | 
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| 5. Date of the transaction and     |                              | 
| date on which the threshold is     | 08 December 2010             | 
| crossed or reached:                |                              | 
|                                    |                              | 
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified:  |                              | 
|                                    | 09 December 2010             | 
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are        | Group (Above 5%)             | 
| crossed or reached:                | LGIM (Above 5%)              | 
|                                    | UTM (Above 5%)               | 
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+------------+-----------+--------+------------+--------+------------+--------+----------+ 
| 8. Notified details:                                                                   | 
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                    | 
|                                                                                        | 
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| Class/type | Situation          | Resulting situation after the                        | 
| of         | previous           | triggering transaction                               | 
| shares     | to the             |                                                      | 
| if         | triggering         |                                                      | 
| possible   | transaction        |                                                      | 
| using      |                    |                                                      | 
| the ISIN   |                    |                                                      | 
| CODE       |                    |                                                      | 
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|            | Number    | Number | Number     | Number of           | % of  voting      | 
|            | of        | of     | of         | voting              | rights            | 
|            | Shares    | Voting | shares     | rights              |                   | 
|            |           | Rights |            |                     |                   | 
+            +           +        +------------+---------------------+-------------------+ 
|            |           |        | Direct     | Direct | Indirect   | Direct | Indirect | 
+------------+-----------+--------+------------+--------+------------+--------+----------+ 
| Ordinary   | Below 5%           | 17,661,000 |        | 17,661,000 |        | 5.97%    | 
| 20p        | LGIM               |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            | (As at             |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            | 01/10/2010)        |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            |                    |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            | Below 5%           |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            | UTM                |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            | (As on             |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            | 01/10/2010)        |            |        |            |        |          | 
|            |                    |            |        |            |        |          | 
+------------+                    +            +        +            +        +          + 
|            |                    |            |        |            |        |          | 
+------------+-----------+--------+------------+--------+------------+--------+----------+ 
 
+---------------+------------+------------+---------------+-----------+ 
| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                 | 
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                | 
|                                                                     | 
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| Type of       | Expiration | Exercise/  | Number of     | % of      | 
| financial     | date       | Conversion | voting        | voting    | 
| instrument    |            | Period     | rights that   | rights    | 
|               |            |            | may be        |           | 
|               |            |            | acquired if   |           | 
|               |            |            | the           |           | 
|               |            |            | instrument is |           | 
|               |            |            | exercised/    |           | 
|               |            |            | converted.    |           | 
|               |            |            |               |           | 
+---------------+------------+------------+---------------+-----------+ 
|               |            |            |               |           | 
+---------------+------------+------------+---------------+-----------+ 
 
+------------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+------------+-------+ 
| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to                           | 
| Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                   | 
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                               | 
|                                                                                    | 
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| Type of    | Exercise | Expiration | Exercise/  | Number of   | % of               | 
| financial  | price    | date       | Conversion | voting      | voting             | 
| instrument |          |            | period     | rights      | rights             | 
|            |          |            |            | instrument  |                    | 
|            |          |            |            | refers to   |                    | 
+------------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+--------------------+ 
|            |          |            |            |             |  Nominal   |Delta  | 
|            |          |            |            |             |            |       | 
+            +          +            +            +             +------------+-------+ 
|            |          |            |            |             |            |       | 
+------------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+------------+-------+ 
 
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| Total (A+B+C)                                                     | 
|                                                                   | 
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| Number of voting rights            | Percentage of voting rights  | 
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| 17,661,000                         | 5.97%                        | 
| LGIM                               |                              | 
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| 16,941,380                         | 5.73%                        | 
| UTM                                |                              | 
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights  |  | 
| and/or the                                                           | | 
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:           | | 
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| Legal & General Group Plc (Direct |                                    | 
| and Indirect) (Group) (17,661,000 |                                    | 
| - 5.97% = Total Position)         |                                    | 
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|                                   |                                    | 
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| Legal & General Investment        |                                    | 
| Management (Holdings) Limited     |                                    | 
| (LGIMH) (Direct and Indirect)     |                                    | 
| (17,661,000 - 5.97% = Total       |                                    | 
| Position)                         |                                    | 
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|                                   |                                    | 
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| Legal & General Investment        |                                    | 
| Management Limited (Indirect)     |                                    | 
| (LGIM) (17,661,000 - 5.97% =      |                                    | 
| Total Position)                   |                                    | 
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|                                   |                                    | 
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| Legal & General (Unit Trust       |                                    | 
| Managers) Limited (16,941,380 -   |                                    | 
| 5.73% = UTM)                      |                                    | 
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|                                   |                                    | 
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|                Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G)                | 
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|                                   |                                    | 
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| Legal & General Investment        | Legal & General Insurance Holdings | 
| Management (Holdings) Limited     | Limited (Direct) (LGIH)            | 
| (Direct) (LGIMHD)                 |                                    | 
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|                                   |                                    | 
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| Legal & General Assurance         | Legal & General Assurance Society  | 
| (Pensions Management) Limited     | Limited (LGAS & LGPL)              | 
| (PMC)                             |                                    | 
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|                                   |                                    | 
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|                                   | Legal & General Pensions Limited   | 
|                                   | (Direct) (LGPL)                    | 
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|                                   |                                  | | 
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| Proxy Voting:                                                     | 
|                                                                   | 
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:      |                              | 
|                                    | N/A                          | 
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy  |                              | 
| holder will cease to hold:         | N/A                          | 
|                                    |                              | 
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder     |                              | 
| will cease to hold voting rights:  | N/A                          | 
|                                    |                              | 
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| 13. Additional information:        |                              | 
|                                    | Notification using the total | 
|                                    | voting rights figure of      | 
|                                    | 295,520,114                  | 
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| 14. Contact name:                  |                              | 
|                                    | Philip Kenny                 | 
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| 15. Contact telephone number:      |                              | 
|                                    | 0208 834 1028                | 
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