THO Thistle Hotels

RNS No 1222m
THISTLE HOTELS PLC
18th June 1998


Thistle Hotels Plc ("the Company")

NOTIFICATION OF SHAREHOLDING

The Company received notification today that :-

FMR Corp. 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, and Fidelity International Limited 
("FIL"), the Parent holding company for various 
direct and indirect subsidiaries, including 
Fidelity Investment Services Ltd ("FISL"), 
investment managers for non-US investment 
companies and institutional clients have a 
notifiable interest in the Ordinary Shares of the 
Company.

The notifiable interests also comprise the 
notifiable interest of Mr Edward C. Johnson 3rd, 
a principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and FIL.

The notifiable interests include interest held on 
behalf of authorised unit trust schemes in the 
U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from 
reporting pursuant to Section 209(1)(e) of the 
Companies Act 1985.

These notifications of disclosable interests 
constitute separate notifications of interest in 
the shares and are combined solely for the 
purposes of clarity. 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 3rd 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.

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.

The registered holders are as follows:-

Registered Holder       Management     Holding
                        Company    

JPM Nominees Ltd          FMRCO         20,200
Chase Nominees Ltd        FMRCO      3,760,300
State Street Nominees Ltd FMRCO      1,407,400
Iceship & Co              FMTC          51,000
Lloyds Bank Nominees Ltd  FMTC          17,300
JPM Nominees Ltd          FMTC         600,000
Northern Trust Co.        FMTC          45,700
Silkboard & Co            FMTC          73,100
Silkcap & Co              FMTC         132,000
Silkbolt & Co             FMTC          23,000
Clydesdale Bank (Head Office)
Nominees Ltd              FISL       8,031,100
Clydesdale Bank (Head Office)
Nominees Ltd              FIL          418,000
Unknown                   FIL           15,800
MSS Nominees Ltd          FIL        1,192,700
Chase Nominees Ltd        FIL           55,530
Barclays Nominees         FIL          757,700
Bankers Trust             FIL          115,000
Marine Securities Services
Nominees Ltd              FIL           79,200
BT Globenet Nominees Ltd  FIL          111,500
Nortrust Nominees Ltd     FIL          247,000
Mineworker Pension
(Client Nominees) Ltd     FIL          300,000
RBS Trust                 FIL          624,000
Morgan Stanley            FIL          366,000
Northern Trust            FIL           41,800
Mitsubishi Trust          FIL            3,800

                             Total  18,489,130

Current ownership percentage 3.00%, basis 
617,290,635 shares in issue.


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