Purchase of Own Securities

North Atlantic Smlr Co Inv Tst PLC
21 May 2002

The Board announces that on 17 May 2002 it purchased 569,300 units of
Convertible Unsecured Loan Stock 2013 for cancellation leaving 8,316,899 units
outstanding.





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