Transaction in Own Shares

The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc announces that on 18 December 2007 the
Company repurchased 120,000 of its own shares for cancellation at a price of
448.5 pence per share. The total number of ordinary 25p shares now in issue is
199,616,748.

Rebecca Burtonwood

For and on behalf of

Fidelity Investments International

Company Secretary

01737 836869

19 December 2007