Holding(s) in Company

John Lewis Of Hungerford PLC
16 July 2003


John Lewis of Hungerford plc

Notifiable Interest

The Board of John Lewis of Hungerford plc ("the Company" or "JLH") announces
that it received notification from Warm Welcome Management Limited ("WWM") that
today WWM purchased 300,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company
representing 0.2% of the issued share capital.

WWM now holds 7,522,365 ordinary shares in the Company representing 5.06% of the
issued share capital.

16 July 2003




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