Churchill Mining plc 12 May 2005 Churchill Mining plc Morgan Stanley Securities Limited ("MSSL") has notified Churchill Mining plc ("the Company") that on 9th May, 2005 they acquired an interest in shares that resulted in MSSL holding a total of 5,000,000 of the Company's shares being approximately 4.07% of the issued share capital of the Company. MSSL is a member of the Morgan Stanley group of companies. Those group companies, which are direct or indirect holding companies of MSSL, are, under the terms of section 203 of the Companies Act 1985, each interested by attribution in any shares in which MSSL is interested. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange