Disclosure of Short Position

RNS Number : 0578T

D E Shaw & Co LP

29 May 2009

TR-3:

Disclosure of Disclosable Short Position relating to Securities which are the subject of a rights issue

1. Full name of person(s) holding the disclosable short position:	D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.*
2: Name of the issuer of the relevant securities	Speedy Hire plc
3: Disclosable short position	-0.45%
4. Date that disclosable short position was reached or exceeded	28 May 2009

* D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. makes this disclosure in its capacity as discretionary investment manager on behalf of D. E. Shaw Valence International, Inc., the entity with the short position noted above in Item 3.

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