Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
28 February 2003

28 February 2003

                                   Diageo Plc

                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 500,000 ordinary shares at an average of 629.14
pence per share.


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