RNS No 9031q
HODDER HEADLINE PLC
5 July 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 July 1999 is 35,459,031.

(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 subsidiary.

(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 & ALLIANCE


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