Buy Back of Own Shares

Leeds Group PLC
31 July 2006


                                Leeds Group plc

                             Buy Back of Own Shares

Leeds Group announces that on 31 July 2006 it purchased 215,000 of its own
Ordinary Shares to be held in treasury. The shares were purchased at 21.5p each.
The total number of Ordinary Shares now held in Treasury is 1,590,000 and the
number of remaining Ordinary Shares in issue is 35,008,603.



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