Statement re. Suspension

Buckland Group PLC
09 July 2003


                               Buckland Group plc

                                ('the Company')
                                  
                       Publication of report and accounts

The Company announces that the report and accounts for the year ended 31
December 2002 have been published and posted to shareholders today.

Copies of the report and accounts may be obtained from Seymour Pierce Limited,
Bucklersbury House, 3 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4N 8EL.

Accordingly, the suspension of trading in the ordinary shares of the Company
will be lifted at 11.45 a.m. today.



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