Transaction in Own Shares

NEWS RELEASE

                                                                4 February 2010

                      FINSBURY GROWTH & INCOME TRUST PLC                       

                                (the "Company")                                

                  SALE OF COMPANY'S OWN SHARES FROM TREASURY                   

Notification is given pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General
Meeting of the Company held on 27 January 2010 to sell shares held by the
Company as treasury shares up to an aggregate nominal value of £1,258,472,
representing 10 per cent. of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company,
that a market total of 250,000 Ordinary shares of 25p each have been sold by
the Company on 4 February 2010 from the shares held in treasury, at a price of
239.50p per share which equates to an estimated discount to net asset value at
the time of sale of 4.85%.

The resultant total number of Ordinary shares held in treasury by the Company
is 2,337,143. The total number of Ordinary shares that the Company has in issue
following such sale is 52,797,423. Therefore, the total number of voting rights
in the Company is 50,460,280.

For and on behalf of

Frostrow Capital LLP

Company Secretary

For further information, please contact:

Mark Pope

Frostrow Capital LLP

Tel: [phone]