LONDON (Dow Jones)--Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC (FRCL.LN), announced Tuesday it purchased for cancellation 138,000 ordinary shares of 25 pence each at a price of 268.189855 pence per share. MAIN FACTS: -Shares closed Tuesday at 268.40 pence -By Zechariah Hemans, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-20-7842-9411; [email protected] (END) Dow Jones Newswires July 20, 2010 12:16 ET (16:16 GMT)