Smiths News PLC

Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement • Dec 16, 2025

Proxy Form

Shareholder Reference Number

You can register your proxy appointment electronically at www.shareview.co.uk using the above numbers. Before completing this form, please read the guidance notes overleaf.

	I/We hereby appoint the Chairman of the Meeting or:
NAME OF PROXY (see Note 2)		NUMBER OF SHARES (see Note 2)		MULTIPLE PROXIES (see Note 3)
	to act as my/our proxy at the Annual General Meeting of Smiths News plc to be held at 11.30am on Thursday 29 January 2026 and at any adjournment. Please refer to the Notice of Annual General Meeting for the full text of the resolutions. This personalised Proxy Form is not transferable and should be disregarded if you have sold your shareholding. I/We direct my/our proxy to vote on the following resolutions as I/we have indicated by marking the appropriate box with an 'X'. If no indication is given my/our proxy will vote or abstain from voting at his or her discretion and I/we authorise my/our proxy to vote (or abstain from voting) as he or she thinks fit in relation to any other matter which is put before the meeting. Please indicate your vote by marking the appropriate boxes in black ink like this:		x

Resolution		Against Vote	Withheld	Resolution		Against Vote	Withheld
1. To receive the accounts and reports of the directors and auditor for the 52	V	V	V	11. To re-elect Mark Whiteling as a director of the Company	V	V	V
week period ended 30 August 2025 2. To approve the directors'				12. To re-elect Deborah Rabey as a director of the Company	V	V	V
remuneration report	V	V	V	13. To elect Manju Malhotra as a director	V	V	V
3. To approve the directors'	V	V	V	of the Company
remuneration policy 4. To approve the rules of the Smiths				14. To re-appoint BDO LLP as auditor	V	V	V
News Long Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP")	V	V	V	15. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	V	V	V
5. To approve the renewal and extension of the Smiths News	V	V	V	16. Authority to make political donations	V	V	V
Sharesave Scheme				17. Authority to allot shares	V	V	V
6. To declare a final dividend	V	V	V	18. Authority to partially disapply pre
7. To declare a special dividend	V	V	V	emptive rights*	V	V	V
8. To re-elect David Blackwood as a				19. Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	V	V	V
director of the Company	V	V	V	20.Authority to call general meetings
9. To re-elect Jonathan Bunting as a director of the Company	V	V	V	(other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	V	V	V
10. To re-elect Michael Holt as a director of the Company	V	V	V

Please place an 'X' in this box if signing on behalf of the shareholder as Power of Attorney, Receiver, or Third Party.

To be valid this Proxy Form must be received by the Company's Registrars, Equiniti, at the address printed overleaf by not later than 11.30am on Tuesday 27 January 2026.

Notice of Availability

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appointment via the internet at www.shareview.co.uk. Annual General Meeting at www.smithsnews.co.uk. You can submit your proxy You can now access the 2025 Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of

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Guidance Notes

Guidance notes for completion Proxy Form and electronic proxy voting

• 1. Shareholders are entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend, speak and vote at Annual General Meeting (AGM) on their behalf. If you wish to appoint a proxy please complete the enclosed Proxy Form and return it, together with any power of attorney or other authority (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) under which it is executed, to the Company's Registrars, Equiniti, so as to be received no later than 11.30am on 27 January 2026. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company and the appointment of a proxy will not prevent you from attending and voting in person.
• 1. You can appoint the Chairman of the Meeting, or any other person, as your proxy. If you wish to appoint someone other than the Chairman, cross out the words 'the Chairman of the Meeting or' on the Proxy Form and insert the name of your proxy in the box provided. If the proxy is being appointed in relation to less than your full voting entitlement, please enter in the box provided the number of shares in relation to which they are authorised to act as your proxy. If left blank your proxy will be deemed to be authorised in respect of your full voting entitlement (or if this Proxy Form has been issued in respect of a designated account for a shareholder, the full voting entitlement for that designated account).
• 1. You may appoint more than one proxy provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by you. If you wish to appoint more than one proxy, each proxy must be appointed on a separate Proxy Form. Additional Proxy Forms may be obtained by contacting Equiniti on +44 (0)371 384 2771*, or you may photocopy the attached Proxy Form. Please indicate by ticking the box provided if the proxy appointment is one of multiple appointments being given. All Proxy Forms must be signed and should be returned together
• 1. You can instruct your proxy how to vote on each resolution on which a poll is taken by placing an 'X' in the 'For', 'Against' or 'Vote Withheld' boxes as appropriate. Please note that a 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution. If you do not indicate on the Proxy Form how your proxy should vote, he/she can exercise his/ her discretion as to whether, and if so how, he/she votes on each resolution, as he/she will do in respect of any other business which may properly come before the meeting.
• 1. You must sign and date the Proxy Form in the boxes provided. In the case of joint shareholders, only one need sign the Proxy Form. The vote of the senior joint shareholder will be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint shareholders. For this purpose, seniority will be determined by the order in which the names of the shareholders appear in the register of members in respect of the joint shareholding. If the Proxy Form is signed by someone else on behalf of the registered holder(s), the appropriate power of attorney or other authority (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) under which it is executed must be returned with the Proxy Form.
• 1. A corporation should execute the Proxy Form under its common seal or otherwise in accordance with Section 44 of the Companies Act 2006 or by signature on its behalf by a duly authorised officer or attorney whose power of attorney or other authority should be returned with the Proxy Form.
• 1. As an alternative to completing and returning the printed Proxy Form, you may submit your proxy appointment and voting instructions by going to Equiniti's Shareview website, www.shareview.co.uk, and logging in to your Shareview Portfolio. To register for a Shareview Portfolio, go to www.shareview.co.uk and enter the requested information. If you wish to appoint more than one proxy electronically, please contact Equiniti on +44 (0)371 384 2771*. Electronic proxy voting instructions must be received no later than 11.30am on 27 January 2026.
• 1. To appoint one or more proxies or to give an instruction to a proxy (whether previously appointed or otherwise) via the CREST system, CREST messages must be received by the issuer's agent (ID number RA19) ) no later than 11.30am on 27 January 2026, that is 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the timestamp generated by the CREST system) from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message. The Company may treat as invalid a proxy appointment sent by CREST in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001.
• 1. If you are an institutional investor you may be able to appoint a proxy electronically via the Proxymity platform, a process which has been agreed by the Company and approved by the Registrar. For further information regarding Proxymity, please go to www.proxymity.io Your proxy must be lodged by 11.30am on 27 January 2026 in order to be considered valid.
• 1. To be entitled to attend and vote at the AGM (and for the purpose of the determination by the Company of the votes they may cast), shareholders must be registered in the register of members at 6.30pm on the day that is two business days before the meeting, or any adjourned meeting. Changes to the register of members after this time shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend and vote at the meeting.
• 1. This Proxy Form shows your name as it appears on the register of members. If the information is incorrect, please contact Equiniti at www.shareview.co.uk

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