HDD Hardide Plc

RNS No 2550j
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
23 June 1999

LETTER TO COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENTS

HODDER HEADLINE PLC - DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST PURSUANT TO SECTION 198 OF THE
COMPANIES ACT 1985

Pursuant to Section 198 of the Companies Act 1985 we are advised that WH Smith
Group PLC is interested in a total of 34,238,722 shares in Hodder Headline PLC.
Attached is a copy of the Section 198 notice received from Linklaters & Paines
on behalf of WH Smith Group PLC after close of business on 21 June.

FROM HODDER HEADLINE PLC

LETTER TO HODDER HEADLINE PLC

Section 198 Companies Act 1985

On behalof 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 purpose of Sections 208 and 209 of the
Act) on 21 June 1999 is 34,238,722.

(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

WH 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 as known to the Notifier at the date of this notification, the
Notifiers interest in the shares to which this notification relates is not such
an interest as is mentioned in Section 208(5) of the Act.

FROM LINKLATERS PAINES

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