RNS No 4880m
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
28 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 25 June 1999 is 34,375,970.

(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 know to us at the date of this notification, as
          follows:

          Name                                    No. of shares

          W H Smith Group PLC                     19,015,919
          Christopher Weston                          45,150
          Josephine Weston                            10,000
          Pershing Securities Limited                  5,846
          Tim Hely Hutchinson                        637,530
          Phillip 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 known to the Notifier at the date of this notification, the
          Notifier's interest in the shares to which this notification relates
          is not such an interest as is mentioned in Section 208(5) of the Act.


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