HALFORDS GROUP PLC: PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Halfords Group PLC announces that on 18 May 2011 it purchased for cancellation 140,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 397.7379p per ordinary share.

Following the above purchase, the Company has now bought back 3,485,000 shares for cancellation, since 7 April 2011 when the buy back programme commenced.