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Filtronic PLC
19 September 2002



                                FILTRONIC PLC
                    BUYS IN $8.0M OF ITS 10% SENIOR NOTES
                         AT A DISCOUNT TO PAR VALUE


Filtronic plc ('Filtronic'), a leading global designer and manufacturer of
customised microwave electronic subsystems, announces that it has bought in
$8.0m of its 10% Senior Notes due 1 December 2005 at a discount to par value.
These Notes will be cancelled leaving $119.2m of the Notes outstanding.
Filtronic has now bought in and cancelled a total of $50.8m of the Notes.
Filtronic is still not utilising any of its £31m bank overdraft facility.



ENDS



For further information, please contact:


Filtronic plc - 01274 530622
Professor David Rhodes                   Executive Chairman & CEO
John Samuel                              Finance Director

Binns & Co PR Ltd - 020 7786 9600
Peter Binns/Paul McManus


Filtronic website: www.filtronic.com



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