Purchase of Own Securities

Edinburgh Investment Trust PLC
28 March 2002

On 14 March 2002, The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc bought back a further
100,000 ordinary shares for cancellation at a price of 421p per share. Following
the buy back, there are 246,996,714 ordinary shares in issue. The share buy-back
will be financed out of the capital reserve.



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