Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
31 December 2002

31 December 2002


                                   Diageo Plc

                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 50,000 ordinary shares at an average of 674.80 pence
per share.

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