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Ashtead Group PLC
16 February 2005


Ashtead Group plc

16th February 2005


                               ASHTEAD GROUP PLC

                             Ordinary Shares of 10p

Ashtead Group plc announces it has today been advised by Barclays Group
Corporate Secretariat, that as at 11th February 2005 Barclays PLC was interested
in a total of 37,236,294 (or 11.43%) of its shares.




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