Director Shareholding

National Grid Transco PLC
29 January 2004


29 January 2004

National Grid Transco plc (NGT)

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Directors' Share Purchase


Roger Urwin, Chief Executive of NGT, yesterday purchased a further 32,000 NGT
shares at 388p per share.

This takes his total interest to 1,128,168 shares.


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