Transaction in Own Shares

Diageo PLC
03 July 2006



This announcement replaces the original announcement released on July 3rd at
17.02pm, RNS No: 5988F.

The number of treasury shares held should have read 253,649,544 and not
253,649,895 as previously stated. All other details remain unchanged. The
amended text appears below.


Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased through Credit Suisse
Securities (Europe) Limited 300,000 ordinary shares at a price of 919.87 pence
per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, Diageo plc holds 253,649,544 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 2,797,330,701.


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