HDD Hardide Plc

RNS No 8022j
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
25 May 1999

SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985

We refer to the letter dated 9 April 1999, 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 following schedule.


                              Hodder Headline plc

Registered Owner                                            Ordinary 10p Shares

Littledown Nominees Limited        A/c 05576                   995000
Littledown Nominees Limited        A/c 05577                    65000

TOTAL                                                         1060000

Notes

Littledown Nominees Ltd is a nominee fr 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; Threadneedle 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 Services Ltd, a company incorporated in Switzerland.

This notifiation is made on behalf of:

Allied Dunbar Assurance 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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