Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
15 October 2003

15 October 2003

                                   Diageo Plc


                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 650,000 ordinary shares at an average of 675.811
pence per share.


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