Purchase of Own Securities

Filtronic PLC
22 August 2003





For Release                                                       22 August 2003



                                  FILTRONIC PLC
                                        
                      BUYS IN $4.0M OF ITS 10% SENIOR NOTES


Filtronic plc ('Filtronic'), a leading global designer and manufacturer of
customised microwave electronic subsystems, announces that it has bought in
$4.0m of its 10% Senior Notes due 1 December 2005. These Notes will be cancelled
leaving $90.0m of the Notes outstanding. Filtronic has now bought in and
cancelled a total of $80.0m of the Notes, since 4 February 2002.


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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