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Ashtead Group PLC
17 May 2005



Ashtead Group plc

17th May 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 May 2005 Barclays PLC was interested in a
total of 32,663,781 (or 10.02%) of its shares.




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