RNS Number:0293U
Kelda Group PLC
08 January 2004




Kelda Group plc announces that, on 8 January 2004 it purchased for

cancellation 300,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 458.2475p per

ordinary share from Cazenove & Co. Ltd.




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