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Smith WH PLC 6 May 2003 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 BELOW LETTER DATED 5 MAY 2003 4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them. SEE BELOW LETTER DATED 5 MAY 2003 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 6 MAY 2003 12) Total holding following this notification 21,931,673 13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification 8.78% 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 Date of Notification 6 MAY 2003 Letter to: Smith (WH) Plc - Dated 5 May 2003 AMENDMENT #21 NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK 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 pensions 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. SCHEDULE A SECURITY: Smith (W H) Plc Amendment # 21 SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT NOMINEE/REGISTERED COMPANY NAME (Ordinary Shares) 1,500 FMTC State Street Nominees Ltd 10,000 FMTC 9,485,925 FISL Chase Nominees Limited 492,429 FPM RBS Trust Bank 344,100 FPM Bank of New York Europe 169,959 FPM Nortrust Nominees Ltd 63,700 FPM BT Globenet Nominees Ltd 58,000 FPM MSS Nominees Ltd 151,300 FPM Chase Nominees Ltd 186,690 FPM Citibank 432,014 FPM Bankers Trust 72,450 FPM Northern Trust 796,550 FIL RBS Trust Bank 385,600 FIL Chase Nominees Ltd 494,428 FIL Nortrust Nominees Ltd 229,029 FIL Morgan Stanley 134,660 FIL Bankers Trust 744,700 FIL Northern Trust 53,140 FIL Citibank 4,848,631 FIL HSBC, London 46,131 FIL BT Globenet Nominees Ltd 1,322,462 FIL Bank of New York - London 376,710 FIL JP Morgan 479,091 FIL Chase Manhattan Bank London 270,774 FIL State Street Bank & Trust 204,400 FIL State Street Nominees Ltd 77,300 FIL Bank of New York Brussels TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES: 21,931,673 CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE: 8.78% SHARES IN ISSUE: 249,899,308 CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE LAST FILING: (2,693,890) ordinary shares Letter from: Fidelity Management & Research Company This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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