RNS Number:4417U
Close Brothers Protected VCT PLC
20 January 2004

Pursuant to its authority to purchase its own shares, Close Brothers Protected
VCT plc ("the Company") announces that it today purchased 6,000 Ordinary Shares
in the Company at a price of 65p per share.


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