RNS No 6251p
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
30 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 OWH, 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 Notifer
knows that it was interested (for the purposes of Sections 208 and 209 of the
Act) on 29 June 1999 is 34,568,970.

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 known 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 subsidiaries.

(5) So far as 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.

LETTER FROM:  LINKLATERS & PAINES 

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