Transaction in Own Shares

Centrica PLC
11 January 2005

Centrica plc



Repurchase of shares



Centrica plc announces that on 11 January 2005 it purchased for cancellation
630,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 236.0454p per share from Morgan
Stanley & Co. International Limited.





Enquiries



Kath Kyle           Centrica plc                                   01753 494902



Jon Bathard-Smith   Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited     020 7425 8000


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