RNS Number:9580H
Latchways PLC
25 February 2003

                                                                25 February 2003





LATCHWAYS PLC



Latchways plc ("the Company") announces that Paul Hearson, Director, has today
purchased 10,000 Ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the Company, at a price of
197.5 pence each.




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