Holding(s) in Company

Balfour Beatty PLC
05 February 2004

Balfour Beatty plc ('the Company') today received notice from Legal & General
Investment Management Limited, on behalf of Legal & General Group plc and / or
its subsidiaries ('Legal & General') that Legal & General now have a notifiable
interest in the ordinary share capital of the Company comprising 12,715,394 50p
Ordinary Shares, representing 3.02% of the issued ordinary share capital of the
Company.


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