RNS Number:0139L
UK Coal PLC
13 May 2003


                                                                     13 May 2003


                                  UK COAL PLC


UK COAL PLC (the Company) announces the purchase on 12 May 2003 of 150,000
ordinary shares in the capital of the Company by Mourant & Co Trustees Ltd as
Trustees of the UK COAL Employee Share Trust (the Trustee), at a price of 82
pence per Share, for the purpose of satisfying, in due course, awards under the
Company's Long Term Incentive Plan.

For Companies Act purposes, each Executive Director of the Company is
technically interested in the Shares held by the UK COAL Employee Share Trust.



M Garness
Company Secretary







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