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Smith WH PLC 17 September 2002 DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS 1) NAME OF COMPANY WH SMITH PLC 2) NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST EDWARD C JOHNSON 3RD PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDER OF FMR CORP. AND FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 SEE LETTER BELOW DATED 13 SEPTEMBER 2002 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE LETTER BELOW DATED 13 SEPTEMBER 2002 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. N/A 6) ( %) of issued Class 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed N/A 8) ( %) of issued Class 9) Class of security ORDINARY SHARES OF 55 5/9 PENCE EACH 10) Date of transaction N/A 11) Date company informed 16 SEPTEMBER 2002 12) Total holding following this notification 32,434,762 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 12.98% 14) Any additional information 15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries A LAM (01793) 562489 16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making this notification I. HOUGHTON, COMPANY SECRETARY Date of Notification .........17 SEPTEMBER 2002............... Letter to W.H. Smith Plc dated September 13, 2002 Amendment # 15 NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- U.K. COMPANIES ACT 1. Company in which shares are held: Smith (WH) Plc 2. Notifiable Interest: Ordinary Shares (A) FMR Corp. 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings). (B) Fidelity International Limited (FIL) P.O. Box HM 670 Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL) and Fidelity Pension Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings). 3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of: Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109 Principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited. 4. The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized unit trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from reporting pursuant to Section 209(1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985. 5. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these notifications on a joint basis. 6. The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act, namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively. Letter from Fidelity Management & Research Company SCHEDULE A SECURITY: Smith (WH) Plc Amendment # 15 SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME COMPANY (Ordinary Shares) 592,100 FMRCO Chase Nominees Limited 165,200 FMRCO State Street Nominees Limited 1,500 FMTC State Street Nominees Ltd 10,000 FMTC 7,786,135 FISL Chase Nominees Limited 365,929 FPM RBS Trust Bank 305,100 FPM Bank of New York Europe 104,059 FPM Nortrust Nominees Ltd 56,700 FPM BT Globenet Nominees Ltd 121,800 FPM MSS Nominees Ltd 695,750 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd 143,290 FPM Citibank 1,044,448 FPM Bankers Trust 72,800 FPM Mellon Nominees Ltd 220,150 FPM Northern Trust 1,156,257 FIL RBS Trust Bank 893,012 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd 695,900 FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd 204,229 FIL Morgan Stanley 114,760 FIL Bankers Trust 1,198,720 FIL Northern Trust 65,840 FIL Citibank 12,493,366 FIL HSBC, London 175,950 FIL BT Globenet Nominees Ltd 16,100 FIL Deutsche Bank AG, London 2,613,629 FIL Bank of New York - London 296,289 FIL JP Morgan 169,386 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank London 198,057 FIL State Street Bank & Trust 316,900 FIL State Street Nominees Ltd 141,406 FIL TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES: 32,434,762 CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE: 12.98% SHARES IN ISSUE: 249,894,911 CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE LAST FILING: (102,063) ordinary shares This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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