Transaction in Own Shares

3 Jan 2006 09:59

NewMedia SPARK PLC03 January 2006 NewMedia SPARK plc 3 January 2006 Purchase of own shares NewMedia SPARK plc (the "Company") The Company announces that on 30th December it purchased 2,000,000 of itsOrdinary Shares of 2.5p at a price of 11.5p per share. These shares will be held in Treasury. This purchase equates to 0.44% of the Company's issued share capital. Following this purchase the Company has 472,735,729 Ordinary shares in issue ofwhich 17,500,000 are now held as Treasury shares. For further information: NewMedia SPARK plc 020 7851 7777 Andrew Betton, Finance Director & Company Secretary This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange