Purchase of Own Securities

Centrica PLC
09 August 2004


Centrica plc


Repurchase of shares


Centrica plc announces that on 9 August 2004 it purchased for cancellation
3,000, 000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 238.0067p 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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