27/04/2001

Stagecoach Group plc has today, 27th April 2001, announced the appointment of Dr Janet Morgan as a Non-Executive Director of the Company.

Dr Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh, is also a non-executive director of Cable & Wireless, of BPB and of NMT. She was formerly a director of Pitney Bowes, WH Smith and Midlands Electricity.

Dr Morgan DPhil MA, aged 55, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is also a Trustee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and Chairman of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network. She was formerly group board adviser to Granada Group, and was special adviser to the director-general of the BBC. She has also been a member of the Central Policy Review Staff at the Cabinet Office.

Brian Souter, Chairman of Stagecoach Group said "I would like to welcome Dr Morgan to the Board. She has a wide-ranging knowledge of British corporate and public life, and she will make a strong contribution to the Stagecoach board."