HALFORDS GROUP PLC: PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES  

Halfords Group PLC announces that on 19 May 2008 it purchased for cancellation 75,771 of its ordinary shares at a price of 288.678p per ordinary share. 

Following the above purchase, the Company have now bought back 20,850,986 shares for cancellation, since the 8 June 2006 when the buy back programme commenced.