Doc re LTIP Award 2003

On 7 October 2003, Severn Trent Plc was informed that the Trustees of the
Severn Trent Plc Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'Trust') had acquired, on
that day, 477,530 Ordinary shares of 65 5/19 pence each in Severn Trent Plc
(the 'Company') at a price of £6.76 per share. The shares were acquired for use
in connection with the Severn Trent Plc Long Term Incentive Plan (the 'Plan').
As beneficiaries of the Trust and participants in the Plan, the Executive
Directors, J K Banyard, M J Bettington, B Duckworth, A S Perelman and R M
Walker have an interest in the shares for the purposes of Section 324 of the
Companies Act 1985.

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