Directors' Share Purchase

National Grid Transco PLC
22 July 2003

22 July 2003

National Grid Transco plc (NGT)

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Directors' Share Purchase



Roger Urwin, Chief Executive of NGT, yesterday purchased a further 25,000 NGT
shares at 385p per share.

This takes his total interest to 1,096,789 shares.




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