Transaction in Own Shares

WH Smith PLC
28 February 2008


                                  WH Smith PLC

                           Transaction in Own Shares


WH Smith PLC announces that on 28 February 2008 it acquired 34,668 of its own
ordinary shares for cancellation at an average price of 380 pence per ordinary
share.



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