Purchase of Own Securities

City of London Investment Trust PLC 3 August 2000 THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC Market Purchase by the Company of its own Ordinary Shares The City of London Investment Trust plc hereby gives notification that, pursuant to the authority granted to the Company at the Annual General Meeting on 4 November 1999 to make market purchases of the Company's own shares, a market purchase of 100,000 ordinary shares of 25p each of the Company was made today at a price of 237.0p per share. Following the purchase and cancellation of the above shares, 207,909,303 ordinary shares of 25p each will remain in issue. For further information please contact: Job Curtis/Alex Crooke The City of London Investment Trust plc Telephone: 020 7410 4367/4447 or Vicki Staveacre The Press Office Henderson Investors Telephone: 020 7410 4222
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