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Smith WH PLC 5 March 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 4 MARCH 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 4 MARCH 2002 5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired. N/A 6) ( N/A %) of issued Class 7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed N/A 8) ( N/A %) 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 5 MARCH 2002 12) Total holding following this notification 22,487,764 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 9.01% 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, SECRETARY Date of Notification ..5 MARCH 2002...................... Letter to Smith (WH) Plc Dated March 4, 2002 Amendment No. 10 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 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. Those 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, of 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 Amendment No. 10 Security: Smith (WH) Plc MANAGEMENT SHARES HELD COMPANY NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME (Ordinary Shares) 22,000 FMTC State Street Nominees Ltd. 102,457 FMTC HSBC, London 13,500 FMTC National Cities 9,702 FMTC Nortrust Nominees 4,400 FMTC Brown Brothers Harriman 5,689,370 FISL Chase Nominees Limited 326,050 FPM RBS Trust Bank 286,200 FPM Bank of New York Europe 2,470 FPM Nordea 54,960 FPM Nortrust Nominees Ltd 55,500 FPM BT Globenet Nominees Ltd 109,800 FPM MSS Nominees Ltd 679,250 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd 53,390 FPM Citibank 861,656 FPM Bankers Trust 52,700 FPM Mellon Nominees Ltd 209,050 FPM Northern Trust 950,057 FIL RBS Trust Bank 1,190,589 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd 463,334 FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd 181,929 FIL Morgan Stanley 24,400 FIL NAB-Australia 101,060 FIL Bankers Trust 721,433 FIL Northern Trust 68,987 FIL Citibank 7,056 FIL State Street Bank & Trust 3,500 FIL Credit Suisse 170,256 FIL Bank of New York Europe 2,500 FIL National Australia Bank 9,459,290 FIL HSBC, London 171,550 FIL BT Globenet Nominees Ltd 30,871 FIL Deutsche Bank AG, London 309,000 FIL Bank of New York - London 2,500 FIL State Street Nominees Ltd 9,689 FIL JP Morgan 87,308 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank London Total Ordinary Shares 22,487,764 Current ownership percentage: 9.01% Shares in issue: 249,508,633 Change in holdings since last filing: +2,242,669 ordinary shares This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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