Purchase of Own Securities

Barclays PLC
20 November 2003

                                   Barclays PLC



                                 SHARE REPURCHASE



Barclays PLC announces that on 20th November 2003 it purchased for cancellation
567,344 of its Ordinary shares at a price of 483 pence per share.











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