Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
28 August 2002




                                  Barclays PLC



                                 SHARE REPURCHASE



Barclays PLC announces that on 28th August 2002 it purchased for cancellation
510,000 of its Ordinary shares at a price of 469.8 pence per share.









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