Transaction in Own Shares

1 Feb 2006 15:31

Northern Venture Trust PLC01 February 2006 NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC ("The Company") PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES The Company announces that on 31 January 2006 it purchased for cancellationunder an existing authority granted by shareholders 20,000 ordinary shares of25p each in the market at a price of 72.2p, representing approximately 0.05 percent of the Company's issued ordinary share capital. There remain 39,058,002ordinary shares in issue. END This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange