LONDON (Dow Jones)--Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC (FRCL.LN) said Thursday it purchased for cancellation 82,000 ordinary shares of 25 pence each at a price of 273.8748 pence per share. -Shares at 1126 GMT up 1.7 pence, or 0.62%, at 276.0 pence. -By Iain Packham, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-20-7842-9269; [email protected] (END) Dow Jones Newswires June 17, 2010 07:27 ET (11:27 GMT)