HALFORDS GROUP PLC: PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Halfords Group PLC announces that on 16 May 2011 it purchased for cancellation 115,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 393.5815p per ordinary share.

Following the above purchase, the Company has now bought back 3,245,000 shares for cancellation, since 7 April 2011 when the buy back programme commenced.