Johnston Press PLC Regulatory News (JPR)

Johnston Press plc (the "Company") - Results of Annual General Meeting.

Annual General Meeting - 30 April 2010

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held at the Caledonian Hilton Hotel, Princes Street, Edinburgh on 30 April 2010, the following resolutions were passed on a show of hands. The table below shows the proxy votes received up to 48 hours before the time of the Annual General Meeting by the Company's Registrars, Computershare Investor Services plc, appointing the Chairman of the meeting as proxy:

Resolution For incl Against Votes withheld TOTAL % For

Discretionary exc votes withheld

1 To receive the Accounts for the 53 459,311,810 45,349 227,028 459,357,159 99.99%

week period ended 2 January 2010

and the reports of the Directors and

Auditors thereon

2 To receive the Directors' 454,791,491 4,774,170 18,166 459,565,661 98.96%

Remuneration Report for the 53

week period ended 2 Janaury 2010

3 To re-elect Mr I S M Russell as a 453,144,042 6,433,669 6,116 459,577,711 98.60%

Director of the Company

4 To re-elect Mr S R Paterson as a 451,857,353 7,720,358 6,116 459,577,711 98.32%

Director of the Company

5 To elect Mr M A Pain as a Director of 452,941,342 6,618,869 23,616 459,560,211 98.56%

the Company

6 To elect Ms C A Rhodes as a 453,075,441 6,476,270 32,116 459,551,711 98.59%

Director of the Company

7 To elect Mr G M Iddison as a 452,979,703 6,554,508 49,616 459,534,211 98.57%

Director of the Company

8 To re-appoint Deloitte LLP, 457,214,046 2,311,968 57,813 459,526,014 99.50%

Chartered Accountants and

Registered Auditors, as auditors of

the Company

9 To authorise the Directors to fix the 452,344,373 7,196,195 43,259 459,540,568 98.43%

remuneration of the auditors

10 To authorise the Directors to allot 443,209,893 14,619,482 1,754,452 457,829,375 96.81%

shares in the Company

11 Special Resolution - To disapply pre- 453,607,834 5,861,903 114,090 459,469,737 98.72%

emption rights

12 Special Resolution - To authorise the 459,485,927 90,015 7,885 459,575,942 99.98%

Company to purchase its own shares

13 Special Resolution - To adopt new 443,729,554 13,916,284 1,937,989 457,645,838 96.96%

Articles of Association

14 Special Resolution - That a General 448,549,155 11,000,463 34,209 459,549,618 97.61%

Meeting, other than an Annual

General Meeting, may be called on

not less than 14 clear days' notice

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rules, copies of resolutions 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 will shortly be available for inspection at the Financial Services Authority's Document Viewer which is situated at the Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HS (telephone 020 7066 1000).

Contact

Peter McCall

Company Secretary

0131 225 3361