Transaction in Own Shares

Witan Investment Trust PLC
23 October 2007

WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

23 October 2007



                           WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

           Market Purchase by the Company of its own Ordinary Shares

Witan Investment Trust plc hereby gives notification that, pursuant to the
authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 30 April
2007 to make market purchases of the Company's own shares, a market purchase of
65,000 ordinary shares of 25p each of the Company was made today at a price of
478.6199p per share.

Following the purchase and cancellation of the above shares, 227,778,389
ordinary shares of 25p each will remain in issue.

The capital of the Company with full voting rights is now the above number of
ordinary shares of 25p each.  This figure may be used as the denominator for
calculations of interests in the Company's voting rights.  On a poll ordinary
shareholders have one vote for every £1 in nominal value (ie four ordinary
shares are required for one vote).

                                     -ENDS-



For further information please contact:

Jim Horsburgh

Chief Executive Officer

Witan Investment Trust plc

Tel: [phone]

or

James Budden

Marketing Director

Witan Investment Trust plc

Tel: [phone]




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