Transaction in Own Shares

Drax Group PLC
23 October 2007




                   Drax Group plc - Transaction in Own Shares


Drax Group plc announces that on 23 October 2007 it purchased for cancellation
200,000 of its ordinary shares at an average price of 638.567 pence per share.

Following the purchase and upon cancellation of these shares, the number of
ordinary shares with voting rights in issue will be 343,566,804.





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