Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
24 December 2002


24 December 2002

                                   Diageo Plc


                             Purchase of Own Shares


Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 100,000 ordinary shares at an average of 672.1935
pence per share.


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