Purchase of Own Securities

Diageo PLC
18 June 2002


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

18 June 2002

                                   Diageo PLC

                             Purchase of Own Shares

Diageo PLC announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
Merrill Lynch International 1,800,000 ordinary shares at an average price of
830.0p per share.

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