HALFORDS GROUP PLC: PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Halfords Group PLC announces that on 8 July 2008 it purchased for cancellation 40,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 242.8359p per ordinary share.

Following the above purchase, the Company have now bought back 21,920,986 shares for cancellation, since the 8 June 2006 when the buy back programme commenced.