HALFORDS GROUP PLC: PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Halfords Group PLC announces that on 15 May 2008 it purchased for cancellation 115,455 of its ordinary shares at a price of 279.561p per ordinary share.

Following the above purchase, the Company have now bought back 20,775,215 shares for cancellation, since the 8 June 2006 when the buy back programme commenced.