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RNS Number : 6899U  WH Smith PLC  24 January 2025

 WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares
 24 January 2025

 WH Smith PLC
 Transactions in own shares

 WH Smith PLC (the 'Company') announces the purchase, in accordance with the
 authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on
 26 January 2024, of 26,041 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on
 24 January 2025 as part of the buyback programme announced on 23 September
 2024 (the 'Programme').

The Company intends to cancel these shares.

Since the announcement of the programme (the 'Programme'), the Company has
 purchased a total of 1,336,627 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 129,580,307 shares in issue . This number represents the total
 voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the
 denominator for the calculations by which they can determine  if they are
 required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the
 Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and
 Transparency Rules.

The table below contains detailed information about the purchases referred to
 above.

 Schedule of purchases

 Shares purchased:                                WH Smith PLC (ISIN: GB00B2PDGW16)
 Date of purchases:                               24 January 2025
 Investment firm:                                 Barclays

 Aggregate information

 Venue                          Aggregated number of ordinary shares purchased        Volume-weighted average price per share         Lowest price per share      Highest price per share
 London Stock Exchange          26,041                                                11.5048                                         11.4400                     11.6400

 In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No
 596/2014 (as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of
 the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual
 trades made by Barclays on behalf of the Company is set out below.
 Transaction Time  Time Zone    Volume            Price             Currency                          Platform Code                   Transaction reference number
 08:09:31          GMT          96                11.64             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327324135
 08:09:31          GMT          170               11.64             GBP                               XLON                            606164594162841018
 08:18:54          GMT          87                11.64             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163043991
 08:19:36          GMT          98                11.64             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327556380
 08:19:36          GMT          125               11.64             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163057670
 08:19:36          GMT          136               11.64             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327556379
 08:19:36          GMT          166               11.64             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327556378
 08:19:36          GMT          446               11.64             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327556377
 08:19:36          GMT          200               11.64             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163057675
 08:19:36          GMT          283               11.64             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163057676
 08:19:36          GMT          82                11.64             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327556482
 08:29:55          GMT          105               11.62             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327762999
 08:29:55          GMT          105               11.62             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163252250
 08:29:55          GMT          121               11.62             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163252251
 08:29:55          GMT          152               11.62             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163252249
 08:33:14          GMT          33                11.58             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327833581
 08:33:14          GMT          212               11.58             GBP                               XLON                            592090845327833580
 08:55:57          GMT          35                11.61             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163770051
 08:55:57          GMT          101               11.61             GBP                               XLON                            592090845328313376
 08:55:57          GMT          101               11.61             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163770053
 08:55:57          GMT          380               11.61             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163770052
 08:56:28          GMT          209               11.61             GBP                               XLON                            606164594163779169
 09:07:26          GMT          16                11.59             GBP                               XLON                            606164594164001454
 09:07:26          GMT          107               11.59             GBP                               XLON                            592090845328557029
 09:07:26          GMT          107               11.59             GBP                               XLON                            592090845328557030
 09:07:26          GMT          208               11.59             GBP                               XLON                            606164594164001453
 09:10:56          GMT          115               11.58             GBP                               XLON                            606164594164068676
 09:10:56          GMT          116               11.58             GBP                               XLON                            592090845328627455
 09:10:56          GMT          126               11.58             GBP                               XLON                            592090845328627453
 09:31:02          GMT          311               11.53             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329049131
 09:31:02          GMT          149               11.53             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329049132
 09:31:02          GMT          371               11.53             GBP                               XLON                            606164594164468169
 10:06:59          GMT          2                 11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329848769
 10:06:59          GMT          2                 11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329848770
 10:06:59          GMT          93                11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329848768
 10:06:59          GMT          3                 11.52             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329848778
 10:06:59          GMT          14                11.52             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329848777
 10:07:36          GMT          128               11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845329862545
 10:08:05          GMT          341               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594165247196
 10:12:21          GMT          137               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594165336808
 10:12:21          GMT          370               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594165336809
 10:12:21          GMT          218               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594165336816
 10:19:35          GMT          108               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845330127972
 10:19:35          GMT          112               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845330127971
 10:19:35          GMT          112               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594165485808
 10:19:35          GMT          126               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594165485809
 10:58:20          GMT          112               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845331079132
 10:58:20          GMT          112               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845331079133
 10:58:20          GMT          112               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594166382825
 10:58:20          GMT          112               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594166382829
 10:58:20          GMT          143               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594166382827
 10:58:20          GMT          528               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845331079131
 10:58:21          GMT          127               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845331079374
 11:22:36          GMT          100               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594166911192
 11:22:36          GMT          100               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594166911193
 11:22:36          GMT          100               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594166911194
 11:22:36          GMT          349               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            592090845331640643
 11:53:06          GMT          106               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594167514305
 11:53:06          GMT          497               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594167514306
 12:07:12          GMT          447               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594167806667
 12:07:12          GMT          77                11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845332598104
 12:07:12          GMT          137               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845332598103
 12:07:12          GMT          169               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845332598102
 12:20:25          GMT          103               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594168060911
 12:30:12          GMT          5                 11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594168253983
 12:30:12          GMT          50                11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594168253982
 12:30:12          GMT          54                11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594168253981
 12:34:28          GMT          109               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845333170214
 12:34:28          GMT          504               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594168337753
 12:34:28          GMT          121               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594168337899
 12:44:31          GMT          349               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845333389285
 13:21:12          GMT          57                11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334211112
 13:21:12          GMT          56                11.51             GBP                               XLON                            606164594169312569
 13:21:33          GMT          543               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            592090845334218996
 13:21:33          GMT          277               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594169320217
 13:48:10          GMT          25                11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334908562
 13:48:10          GMT          66                11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334908560
 13:48:10          GMT          83                11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334908563
 13:48:10          GMT          104               11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334908558
 13:48:10          GMT          104               11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334908561
 13:48:10          GMT          112               11.51             GBP                               XLON                            606164594169968079
 13:48:10          GMT          435               11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334908559
 13:48:10          GMT          360               11.51             GBP                               XLON                            606164594169968087
 13:48:46          GMT          46                11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334926893
 13:48:46          GMT          268               11.51             GBP                               XLON                            592090845334926892
 14:00:50          GMT          85                11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335259684
 14:00:50          GMT          106               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335259686
 14:00:50          GMT          106               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335259687
 14:00:50          GMT          265               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335259685
 14:20:48          GMT          104               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594170786833
 14:22:11          GMT          23                11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335814284
 14:22:11          GMT          27                11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335814282
 14:22:11          GMT          81                11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335814285
 14:22:11          GMT          104               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335814286
 14:22:11          GMT          104               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335814287
 14:22:11          GMT          104               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335814288
 14:22:11          GMT          104               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594170824555
 14:22:11          GMT          104               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594170824556
 14:22:11          GMT          104               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594170824557
 14:22:11          GMT          322               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845335814283
 14:32:47          GMT          102               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336168474
 14:32:47          GMT          102               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336168475
 14:32:47          GMT          102               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594171161451
 14:32:47          GMT          102               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594171161452
 14:32:47          GMT          349               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594171161450
 14:40:34          GMT          95                11.45             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336470297
 14:40:34          GMT          103               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336470296
 14:40:34          GMT          103               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            606164594171448449
 14:40:34          GMT          350               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336470295
 14:43:26          GMT          8                 11.45             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336581843
 14:43:26          GMT          101               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            606164594171555048
 14:43:26          GMT          103               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336581845
 14:43:26          GMT          236               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            592090845336581844
 14:49:26          GMT          350               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            606164594171785618
 14:55:36          GMT          105               11.46             GBP                               XLON                            592090845337048462
 14:55:36          GMT          69                11.46             GBP                               XLON                            592090845337048464
 14:55:36          GMT          106               11.46             GBP                               XLON                            592090845337048465
 14:55:36          GMT          175               11.46             GBP                               XLON                            592090845337048463
 15:01:58          GMT          65                11.44             GBP                               XLON                            606164594172251052
 15:01:58          GMT          101               11.44             GBP                               XLON                            592090845337315685
 15:01:58          GMT          283               11.44             GBP                               XLON                            606164594172251053
 15:12:55          GMT          630               11.44             GBP                               XLON                            606164594172661401
 15:12:55          GMT          115               11.44             GBP                               XLON                            592090845337745921
 15:26:03          GMT          112               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            592090845338206035
 15:26:03          GMT          112               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            606164594173098958
 15:26:03          GMT          112               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            606164594173098959
 15:26:03          GMT          112               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            606164594173098960
 15:26:03          GMT          112               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            606164594173098961
 15:26:03          GMT          350               11.45             GBP                               XLON                            606164594173098957
 15:44:04          GMT          98                11.47             GBP                               XLON                            606164594173637298
 15:44:04          GMT          186               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845338774752
 15:44:04          GMT          191               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            606164594173637299
 15:44:04          GMT          402               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845338774751
 15:44:04          GMT          9                 11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845338774757
 15:44:04          GMT          133               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845338774758
 15:44:04          GMT          360               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845338774756
 15:57:52          GMT          109               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845339250497
 15:57:52          GMT          109               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594174088438
 15:57:52          GMT          109               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594174088439
 15:57:52          GMT          109               11.49             GBP                               XLON                            606164594174088437
 15:57:52          GMT          477               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845339250496
 15:57:52          GMT          264               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845339250502
 16:07:52          GMT          99                11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845339624582
 16:09:56          GMT          106               11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845339706414
 16:14:21          GMT          16                11.47             GBP                               XLON                            592090845339889217
 16:17:58          GMT          85                11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845340034153
 16:17:58          GMT          119               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594174831429
 16:17:58          GMT          178               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594174831428
 16:17:58          GMT          413               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845340034154
 16:17:58          GMT          552               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845340034162
 16:17:58          GMT          50                11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594174831438
 16:17:58          GMT          200               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            606164594174831437
 16:17:58          GMT          222               11.48             GBP                               XLON                            592090845340034171
 16:29:55          GMT          15                11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594175366359
 16:29:55          GMT          928               11.5              GBP                               XLON                            606164594175366361

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