Transaction in Own Shares

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Transaction in own shares

The Company announces that, pursuant to the previously announced share buy-back programme, it has purchased Ordinary shares of 10p each as follows:

Date of purchase: 29 April 2010

Number of Ordinary shares purchased: 420,000

Highest price paid per share: 277.7p

Lowest price paid per share: 271.55p

The purchase, including stamp duty and other transaction costs, represented an average price of 274.49 pence per share and £1.15m in total; this has been funded from Group cash resources. The purchased shares will be cancelled.

Following the purchase of these shares, the number of Ordinary shares with voting rights in issue will be 877,025,001.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

29 April 2010