HDD Hardide Plc

RNS No 4294j
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
7 June 1999


LETTER TO: HODDER HEADLINE PLC

SECTION 198 COMPANIES ACT 1985 ("the Act")

On behalf of W H Smith Group PLC (the "Notifier") whose address is Nations
House, 103 Wigmore Street, London, W1H 0WH, we hereby give notice pursuant to
Section 198 of the Act that:

(1) This notification relates to, and the expression "share capital" used below
means, the ordinary share capital of the Company.

(2) The number of shares comprised in the share capital in which the Notifier
knows that it was interested (for the purposes of Sections 208 and 209 of the
Act) on 2 June 1999 is 20,030,977.

(3) The identities of the registered holders of the shares to which this
notification relates, and the number of shares held by such holders, are, so far
as known to us at the date of this notification, as follows:

Name                                              No. of shares

Christopher Weston                                45,150
Josephine Weston                                  10,000
Pershing Securities Limited                        5,846
Tim Hely Hutchinson                              637,530
Philip Walters                                    17,400
Jennifer Anne Walters                             16,400
Charles Birch                                        975
Richard Stileman                                  14,762
Patricia Stileman                                  9,575
Lloyds Bank (Pep Nominees) Limited                 4,340
Sue Fletcher                                     195,882
Nicholas Willoughby Stuart                         1,702
Sharelink Nominees Ltd                            39,942

(4) In respect of the balance of ordinary shares to which this notification
relates, it is intended that they should be registered in the name of the
Notifier or its subsidiary.

(5) So far as known to the Notifier at the date of this notification, our
interest in 999,504 of the shares to which this notification relates is such an
interest as is mentioned in Section 208(5) of the Act.


FROM: LINKLATERS & PAINES
      ON BEHALF OF THE NOTIFIER


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