Transaction in Own Shares

Lancashire Holdings Limited
12 December 2007

12 December 2007

                            Lancashire Holdings Ltd



                    Purchase of own shares for cancellation



Lancashire Holdings Ltd announces that on 12 December 2007 it purchased for
cancellation 430,000 ordinary shares at a price of 360p pence per share through
Merrill Lynch International.







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