Transaction in Own Shares

WH Smith PLC
14 March 2008



                                  WH Smith PLC

                           Transaction in Own Shares


WH Smith PLC announces that on 14 March 2008 it acquired 425,000 of its own
ordinary shares for cancellation at an average price of 364.741176 pence per
ordinary share.


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