Purchase by Trust

Unite Group PLC
23 August 2002

UNITE GROUP PLC
23 August 2002


On 21 August 2002,Compass Trustees Limited, on behalf of The Unite Employee
Share Ownership Trust, purchased 37,690 ordinary 25p shares at 166 pence per
share.  The beneficiaries of the trust are employees of the Company and its
subsidiaries.


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