LONDON (ShareCast) - Directors at electronic payment services group PayPoint sold millions of pounds worth of shares in the company today, following the release of a positive interim statement.

Chairman David Newlands sold 290,143 shares for over £1.7m and chief executive Dominic Taylor sold 129,239 shares for just under £778,000.

Newlands now owns just 5,000 shares in the company, while Taylor sold his entire stake. They sold the shares for 600p each.

Paypoint, whose services include bill payments at convenience stores, said this morning that the integration of the newly acquired internet payment and Romanian businesses is going well.

In the period from 1 October 2007 the company has seen the number of its terminal sites increase by 3.3% to 23,380 from 22,624. The number of sites at the recently acquired Romanian business has risen by 8.1% over the same period to 3,899.

Top Director Buys

Holidaybreak (HBR)
Director name: Mr James Greenbury
Amount purchased: 17,344 @ 572.00p
Value: £99,208

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Director name: Mr Robert Ayling
Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p
Value: £49,604

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Director name: Mr Martin Davies
Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p
Value: £49,604

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Director name: Mr James Wallace
Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p
Value: £49,604

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Director name: Mr Steven Whitfield
Amount purchased: 8,672 @ 572.00p
Value: £49,604

Regal Petroleum (RPT)
Director name: Mr Francesco Scolaro
Amount purchased: 33,500 @ 137.00p
Value: £45,895

Rift Oil (RIFT)
Director name: Mr Ian R Gowrie-Smith
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Value: £37,500

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Director name: Mr Carl Michel
Amount purchased: 3,469 @ 572.00p
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Top Director Sells

PayPoint (PAY)
Director name: Mr David Newlands
Amount sold: 290,143 @ 600.00p
Value: £1,740,858

BP (BP.)
Director name: Mr Byron E Grote
Amount sold: 119,073 @ 567.13p
Value: £675,299

PayPoint (PAY)
Director name: Mr Dominic Taylor
Amount sold: 200,000 @ 600.00p
Value: £1,200,000

PayPoint (PAY)
Director name: Mr Dominic Taylor
Amount sold: 129,639 @ 600.00p
Value: £777,834

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