Ashburton Ventures Inc.
options prospective gold property contiguous with Goldcorp’s Red
Lake-Campbell Mine Complex, Ontario

March 23, 2009, VANCOUVER, B.C. – ASHBURTON VENTURES INC. (ABR-TSX:V)
(“Ashburton” or the “Company”) and Solitaire Minerals Corp (SLT-TSX:V)
have entered into an option agreement whereby Ashburton can obtain a
60% interest in Solitaire’s Chukuni Property consisting of 3 claims,
covering 1,520 acres in the Red Lake Mining District of Ontario
adjoining
Goldcorp’s Red Lake-Campbell Mine Complex. This Option Agreement is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
The Chukuni property lies within the southern corridor of the Cochenour- Gullrock deformation zone and is of particular
interest within the Red Lake Mining District as it hosts the well known Red Lake-Campbell Mine Complex. Goldcorp’s Red
Lake-Campbell Mine Complex, approximately 3.5 km to the north of the Chukuni property, currently remains one of
Canada’s largest and richest Archean gold deposits. Goldcorp’s Red Lake-Campbell Mine Complex produced 629,000 ounces
of gold in 2008 (source: Goldcorp’s website at the following link http://www.goldcorp.com/operations/red_lake_mine/).

New drill targets have been identified as a result of the information collected from a past work program (drilling and
airborne) performed by Solitaire Minerals in 2006 and from further analysis of the airborne magnetic anomalies (Fraser
filtered VLF-EM data).

Cumulative terms of the agreement for Ashburton Ventures Inc. to earn a 60% interest from Solitaire Minerals Corp. in the
Chukuni property are for Ashburton to pay Solitaire Minerals $90,000 cash, issue 1,000,000 common shares and spend
$1,000,000 in exploration expenditures over a three year period.

Mr. Andrew Tims, P.Geo, will be operating as the Company’s qualified person under National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Tims
has reviewed the technical content of this news release and confirms its accuracy.

Ashburton Ventures Inc. is a recently listed junior exploration company
whose mission is to acquire highly prospective base and precious metal
properties for the benefit of its stakeholders. The Company’s website
can be viewed at
www.ashburtonventures.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Michael England”
___________________________
Michael England, President

For further information contact:
Telephone: (604) 683-3995
Facsimile: (604) 683-3988
Email: englandcommunications@shaw.ca

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

ASHBURTON VENTURES INC.
ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF
SECOND TRANCHE OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT

February 25, 2009, VANCOUVER, B.C. – ASHBURTON VENTURES INC. (ABR-TSX:V) (“Ashburton”
or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the closing of the second tranche of its private placement
(the “Private Placement”) announced in a news release dated January 26, 2009. Pursuant to the
Private Placement, the Company issued 1,500,000 units (the “Units”) at a price of $0.06 per Unit for
gross proceeds of $90,000. Each Unit is comprised of one common share (a “Share”) of the Company
and one common share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to
purchase one additional Share of the Company for a period of two years from the date of issuance at a
price of $0.10 per Share.

All securities issued pursuant to the private placement are subject to a hold period expiring on June 19, 2009.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Michael England”
___________________________
Michael England, President

For further information contact:
Michael England, Director
Telephone: (604) 683-3995
Facsimile: (604) 683-3988
Email: englandcommunications@shaw.ca

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release.

Ashburton Ventures Inc. has completed its previously announced
acquisition of an undivided 60-per-cent interest in and to the OG
property located approximately 110 kilometres northwest of Dawson City,
Yukon. The acquisition constitutes the company’s qualifying transaction
pursuant to the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. The qualifying
transaction was completed on Dec. 31, 2008.

Pursuant to
the qualifying transaction, the company issued 500,000 common shares to
Full Metal Minerals Inc., which shares are subject to a hold period
expiring May 1, 2009.

The company’s board of directors now comprises Michael England, Tom
McCandless, Lorne McCarthy, Marvin Mitchell and Philip Taneda. Mr.
England is the chief executive officer, and Mr. Taneda is the chief
financial officer and secretary.

Concurrently with the completion of the qualifying transaction, the
company completed a brokered private placement of 3.5 million
flow-through units at a price of 10 cents per FT unit for gross
proceeds of $350,000. Each FT unit consists of one flow-through common
share and one non-transferable share purchase warrant, with each
warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional share of the
company at a price of 21 cents per share for a period of five years
from the completion of the financing.

Bolder Investment Partners Ltd. acted as agent for the private
placement and received a commission of $22,000, together with 220,000
agent’s warrants. Each agent’s warrant entitles the holder to purchase
one additional common share at 14 cents per share for a period of two
years from the completion of the financing. The agent also received a
work fee of $15,000 plus GST.

The shares, warrants and agent’s warrants are subject to a hold period expiring May 1, 2009.

After completion of the qualifying transaction and private placement,
the company has 10,233,000 shares outstanding, with 4,806,800 shares
reserved for issuance upon exercise of options and warrants.

For further details regarding the qualifying transaction, please refer
to the company’s filing statement dated Dec. 18, 2008, filed under the
company’s profile on SEDAR.

For further information contact:
Michael England, Director
Telephone: (604) 683-3995
Facsimile: (604) 683-3988
Email: englandcommunications@shaw.ca

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

February 3, 2009, VANCOUVER, B.C. – ASHBURTON VENTURES INC. (ABR-TSX:V)
(“Ashburton” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the closing of
the first tranche of its private placement (the “Private Placement”)
announced in a news release dated January 26, 2009. Pursuant to the
Private Placement, the Company issued 2,500,000 units (the “Units”) at
a price of $0.06 per Unit for gross proceeds of $150,000. Each Unit is
comprised of one common share (a “Share”) of the Company and one common
share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will entitle the
holder to purchase one additional Share of the Company for a period of
two years from the date of issuance at a price of $0.10 per Share.

Finder’s fees consisting of 200,000 broker warrants (the “Broker
Warrants”) and $12,000 in cash were paid in accordance with the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. Each Broker Warrant will entitle
the holder to purchase one Share of the Company for a period of two
years from the date of issuance at a price of $0.10 per Share.

All securities issued pursuant to the private placement are subject to a hold period expiring on May 31, 2009.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
___________________________
Michael England, President

For further information contact:
Michael England,
Director
Telephone: (604) 683-3995
Facsimile: (604) 683-3988
Email: englandcommunications@shaw.ca

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

ASHBURTON VENTURES INC.
NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND PRIVATE PLACEMENT ANNOUNCED

Vancouver, British Columbia, January 23, 2009. ASHBURTON VENTURES INC.
(the “Company”) (TSXV: ABR) is pleased to announce the appointment of
the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer, Zara Kanji-Aquino, effective
immediately. Ms. Kanji-Aquino, a Certified General Accountant, is the
founder and proprietor of Zahara Kanji-Aquino and Company, a firm
providing accounting services to private and public companies, and
brings financial and accounting expertise to the Company.
Mr. Philip Taneda has resigned as CFO and Secretary of the Company to
pursue other interests. The Company wishes Mr. Taneda continued success
in his future endeavours.

The Company is also pleased to announce that it has arranged a
non-brokered private placement of up to 3,000,000 flow-through units at
a price of $0.10 per unit for gross proceeds of $300,000. Each
flow-through unit is comprised of one flow-through common share and
one-half (½) of a share purchase warrant. One whole share purchase
warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional non-flow-through
common share for $0.15 for a period of 24 months from the date of
issuance.

In addition, the Company has arranged a non-brokered private placement
of up to 4,000,000 non-flow-through units at a price of $0.06 per unit
for gross proceeds of $240,000. Each such unit is comprised of one
non-flow-through common share and one share purchase warrant. Each
whole share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an
additional common share for $0.10 for a period of 24 months from the
date of issuance.

The proceeds from the flow-through private placement will be used to
undertake the Company’s anticipated work programs on the Company’s OG
Property, located approximately 110 kilometres northwest of Dawson
City, Yukon. The proceeds from the non-flow-through private placement
will be used for the Company’s working capital.

Both private placements are subject to the acceptance for filing of the TSX Venture Exchange.

For further details regarding the Company or its OG Property, please
refer to the Company’s Filing Statement dated December 18, 2008 and
various news releases, including the news release dated January 5, 2009
announcing the closing of the Qualifying Transaction and the private
placement, filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
For further information contact:

Michael England, Director
Telephone: (604) 683-3995
Facsimile: (604) 683-3988
Email: englandcommunications@shaw.ca

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.