Result of AGM

Finsbury Growth & Income Trust PLC
26 January 2006

                                                                    NEWS RELEASE
                                                                 26 JANUARY 2006


                         Finsbury Growth & Income Trust PLC

                               Results of the AGM


The Company is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting held on 26
January 2006 all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.


Resolutions


 1. To receive and consider the audited accounts and the Report of the Directors
    for the year ended 30 September 2005.


 2. To re-elect John Allard, who retires by rotation, as a Director of the
    Company.


 3. To re-elect Vanessa Renwick, who retires by rotation, as a Director of the
    Company.


 4. To re-elect Michael Reeve as a Director of the Company.


 5. To re-elect Anthony Townsend as a Director of the Company.


 6. To re-elect Giles Warman as a Director of the Company.


 7. To re-appoint RSM Robson Rhodes LLP as the Company's auditors and to
    authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration.


 8. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report.


 9. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of Ordinary shares in the
    Company


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For further information please contact:


Nick Train           Lindsell Train Limited                    020 7225 6411
Tracey Lago          Close Finsbury Asset Management Limited   020 7426 6219
Fiona Harris         Quill Communications                      020 7763 6977
Michael Reeve        Chairman                                  via 020 7426 6219






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