Purchase of Own Securities

NewMedia SPARK PLC
19 September 2001

NEWMEDIA SPARK PLC


Purchase of own shares

NewMedia SPARK plc confirms that it has now completed the repurchase of
6,692,321 of its own shares which were previously held by Globalnet
Financial.com, Inc. and, accordingly, the number of its shares in issue has
been correspondingly reduced.

Contacts : Michael Whitaker - NewMedia SPARK plc 020 7851 7777