Transaction in Own Shares

WH Smith PLC
29 February 2008



                                  WH Smith PLC

                           Transaction in Own Shares

WH Smith PLC announces that on 29 February 2008 it acquired 510,000 of its own
ordinary shares for cancellation at an average price of 383.4237 pence per
ordinary share.



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