RNS Number : 3713U
  Leisure & Gaming plc
  14 May 2008
   

    14 May 2008 
    Leisure & Gaming plc

    Directorate Change

    Leisure & Gaming plc ("the Company") is pleased to announce today the appointment to the Board of Richard Creed as Finance Director,
replacing Michael Baird. It is also pleased to announce that Neil Craven has been appointed to the Board as a non-executive director. 
Benjamin Shaw today steps down from his position as a non-executive director.

    Richard Creed was formerly finance director of BetonSports plc and a partner with Casson Beckman, now part of Baker Tilly.  Richard
Creed is a qualified accountant who has extensive gaming industry and corporate finance experience. Neil Craven, a shareholder in the
Company, has many years' experience at senior management levels in telecommunications and fund management. He is currently a private
investor focusing on small-cap equities. 

    Henry Birch, Chief Executive said:

    "We are delighted to appoint Richard Creed and Neil Craven to the Board. We believe that Richard's experience in the gaming industry and
over 25 years experience of corporate finance and accountancy will be of huge benefit to the Company and strengthen our management
expertise. Equally Neil's successful track record as an entrepreneur and more recently as an investor in AIM-listed companies will
strengthen the Board.  

    "The Board would also like to thank Michael Baird and Benjamin Shaw for all their work in restructuring and transforming the Company
over the past eighteen months and wish them well for the future."

    Disclosure of Directorships under Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules

    Richard Edward Creed, aged 52, is or has been a director of the following companies during the previous five years:

 Current Directorships:          Directorships held within the previous five years:

 Health Project Management       BETonSPORTS Plc
 Limited
 Wimbledon (Lakeside) Cricket    BOS (Antigua) Limited
 Ground Limited
                                 Healix Limited

    Neil Craven, aged 39, is or has been a director of the following companies during the previous five years:

 Current                         Directorships held within the previous five years:
 Directorships/Partnerships:

 Medsea Estates Group Plc        None
 Azemos Partner AG

    Richard Creed was a director of the following companies:

    BETonSPORTS Plc which was placed into creditors' voluntary liquidation on 16 May 2007 with an estimated deficiency to creditors of
£1,150,282;

    Intelligence Exchange Networks Limited which was placed into a voluntary arrangement on 18 April 2002 with an estimated deficiency to
creditors of £1,060,352; and

    World Health Network Singapore Pte Ltd. which was wound up on 15 July 2004 with liabilities of S$71,690.

    Neil Craven was a director of Carrier 1 International Luxembourg, a subsidiary of Carrier 1 International GmbH which filed for
insolvency in February 2002.

    There are no other matters which are required to be announced with regard to this appointment under paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the
AIM Rules.


    For further information, please contact:

    Henry Birch, Chief Executive, Leisure & Gaming plc
    Tel: 020 8150 5718

    Jonathon Brill/Billy Clegg/Caroline Stewart, Financial Dynamics
    Tel: 020 7831 3113

    William Vandyk, Blue Oar Securities
    Tel: 020 7448 4400 

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