Pension Fund Share Purchase

Cropper(James) PLC
28 September 2001

                      James Cropper PLC ('the Company')

                   Purchase of shares by Staff Pension Fund


The Company was notified on 27 September 2001 that the James Cropper PLC Staff
Pension Fund ('the Fund') bought 50,000 ordinary shares of 25 pence each in
the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of 142 pence per Ordinary Share.
Following this acquisition the Fund now holds 291,000 Ordinary Shares
representing 3.48 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.


Two executive directors Mr John Malcolm Denman and Mr Nigel Anthony Read are
trustees of the Fund and are therefore deemed to have a non-beneficial
interest in the Fund.


28 September 2001