Purchase of Own Securities

Centrica PLC
07 September 2004



Centrica plc

Repurchase of shares


Centrica plc announces that on 7 September 2004 it purchased for cancellation
3,000,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 244.5583p per share from Cazenove
& Co. Ltd


Enquiries


Kath Kyle  Centrica plc   01753 494902


Jonathan Wilcox  Cazenove & Co. Ltd  020 7588 2828




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