HDD Hardide Plc

RNS No 5024d
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
9 April 1999

LETTER TO: HODDER HEADLINE PLC

SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985

We refer to the letter dated 27 October 1998, disclosing a notifiable interest
of the Zurich Financial Services Group and Zurich Allied AG, both of
Switzerland, and Allied Zurich p.l.c., in the shares of your Company.

In accordance with the provisions of the above Section, we would inform you of a
change to the notifiable interest over shares in your Company, which are held as
detailed on the schedule below.

LETTER FROM:  THREADNEEDLE INVESTMENT MANAGERS LIMITED


Hodder Headline plc

Registered Owner                                            Ordinary 10p Shares

Littledown Nominees Limited             A/c 07203                     544200
Littledown Nominees Limited             A/c 07200                     187350
Littledown Nominees Limited             A/c 05576                     995000
Littledown Nominees Limited             A/c 05577                      65000

TOTAL                                                                1791550

Notes

Littledown Nominees Ltd is a nominee for the ZFS Group subsidiaries: Allied
Dunbar Assurance plc, Allied Dunbar (Staff Pension Plan) Trustees Ltd; Eagle
Star Insurance Company Ltd; Eagle Star Life Assurance Company Ltd; Eagle Star
Pension Trustee Ltd; Eagle Star Executives Pension Trustee Ltd; Eagle Star
Reinsurance Company Ltd; Eagle Star Securities Ltd; Sceptre Trust Ltd; Home &
Overseas Insurance Company Ltd; Threadnneedle Pension Fund Managers Ltd; and
Chase Manhattan Trustees Ltd, the Trustee for Eagle Star Unit Managers Ltd and
the Depository to Threadneedle Investment Funds ICVC.

ZFS is Zurich Financial Sevices Ltd, a company incorporated in Switzerland.

This notification is made on behalf of:

Allied Dunbar Assurance plc;

Eagle Star Insurance Company Ltd, Eagle Star Life Assurance Company Ltd and
Eagle Star Holdings PLC;

Threadneedle Investment Managers Ltd and Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd;

Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) Ltd, Allied Zurich Holdings Ltd, Zurich
Financial Services, Allied Zurich plc and Zurich Allied AG, the intermediate and
ultimate holding companies of the aforementioned companies.

The shares could be available for lending and this could lead to a short term
re-registration.

END

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