Transaction in Own Shares

1 Sep 2006 11:14

NewMedia SPARK PLC01 September 2006 NewMedia SPARK plc 1 September 2006 Purchase of own shares NewMedia SPARK plc (the "Company") The Company announces that on 31 August 2006 it purchased 1,000,000 of itsOrdinary Shares of 2.5p at a price of 15.88p per share. These shares will be held in Treasury. This purchase equates to 0.23% of the Company's issued share capital. Following this purchase the Company has 472,735,729 Ordinary shares in issue ofwhich 42,615,949 are now held as Treasury shares. For further information: NewMedia SPARK plc 020 7851 7777Andrew Betton, Finance Director & Company Secretary This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange