RNS Number:6154T
Anglo & Overseas Trust PLC
23 December 2003




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23 December 2003



Dear Sirs





We wish to inform you that we have today been notified that Mr C C B Duffett, a
director of the Company, has today purchased for his own account 10,000 of the
Company's ordinary shares at a price of 171.75p per share.





Yours faithfully

M Pope

Company Secretary


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