HALFORDS GROUP PLC: PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Halfords Group PLC announces that on 9 July 2008 it purchased for cancellation 50,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 248.52592p per ordinary share.

Following the above purchase, the Company have now bought back 21,970,986 shares for cancellation, since the 8 June 2006 when the buy back programme commenced.