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Ashtead Group PLC
12 July 2005


Ashtead Group plc
12th July 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 8th July 2005 Barclays PLC was interested in a
total of 34,935,120 (or 10.71%) of its shares.


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