Northern Venture Tst – Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number:9910C
Northern Venture Trust PLC
15 May 2006

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC (‘The Company’)

PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

The Company announces that on 12 May 2006 it purchased for cancellation under an
existing authority granted by shareholders 110,000 ordinary shares of 25p each
in the market at a price of 74.2p, representing approximately 0.28 per cent of
the Company’s issued ordinary share capital. There remain 38,770,193 ordinary
shares in issue.

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