Transaction in Own Shares

Lancashire Holdings Limited
11 December 2007

11 December 2007

                            Lancashire Holdings Ltd

                    Purchase of own shares for cancellation


Lancashire Holdings Ltd announces that on 11 December 2007 it purchased for
cancellation 500,000 ordinary shares at a price of 362.25 pence per share
through Merrill Lynch International.




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