Purchase of Own Securities

Yule Catto & Co PLC
7 April 2000



                             Yule Catto & Co. plc                             
                          Purchase of own securities                          


Yule Catto & Co. plc announces that, on 6th April, 2000 it purchased for
cancellation 106,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 200p per ordinary
share.