Purchase of Own Securities

Close Technology & General VCT PLC
27 March 2003

                    Close Technology & General VCT PLC


Pursuant to its authority to purchase its own shares, Close Technology & General
VCT plc ('the Company') announces that it today purchased 20,000 Ordinary Shares
in the Company at a price of 66p per share.

27 March 2003


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