RNS Number:5757H
Close Brothers Protected VCT PLC
17 February 2003

Pursuant to its authority to purchase its own shares, Close Brothers Protected
VCT plc ("the Company") announces that it today purchased 100,000 Ordinary
Shares in the Company at a price of 73p per share.


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