Purchase of Own Securities

FOREIGN & COLONIAL U.S. SMALLER COMPANIES PLC 15 October 1999 Foreign & Colonial U.S. Smaller Companies PLC has today purchased for cancellation, through Cazenove & Co, 250,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price of 167p per share. Following this purchase, the total number of ordinary shares in issue stands at 40,749,491.
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