Transaction in Own Shares

Diageo PLC
25 November 2005


Diageo plc
25 November 2005

Diageo plc announces that it has today purchased through Goldman Sachs
International 500,000 ordinary shares at a price of 847.10 pence per share.  The
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.


Following the above purchase, Diageo plc holds 153,019,000 ordinary shares as
treasury shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 2,897,462,366.





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