RNS No 4851n
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
8 June 1999

LETTER TO:  HODDER HEADLINE PLC

RE:  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 4 June 1999 is 20,074,691.

(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 subsidiaries.

(5) So far as known to the Notifier at the date of this notification, our
interest in 330,816 of the shares to which this notification relates is such an
interest as is mentioned in Section 208(5) of the Act.

LETTER FROM:  LINKLATERS & PAINES

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